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Charlotte Helen Bailey

@charlottehelen.bsky.social
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Writing about transnationalism and the political economy of true costs and real value. Literature, economics, power. Words in the Atlantic, Vogue, Time, the Guardian, Prospect etc. www.charlottehelenbailey.co.uk

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's also start the campaign for the UK to rejoin the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My dad died three years ago today after exposure to asbestos. Asbestos remains in so much of our infrastructure; this article remains depressingly important.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
4/ Domestic and foreign policy need to rhyme. You can't devolve power in UK without a global theory of industrial/knowledge clusters. You can't drive affordability without a grip on global renewables/electrification. You can't hone UK tech strengths without a vision for global digital governance.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The idea English identity is confined to ethnicity & ancestry is more niche than abolishing monarchy/joining Euro But media elites skew & overcompensate to an imaginary caricature of public = weird assymetry: venerate niches on right as 'authentic' but would lecture progressives about median voter
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/02/2026
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
He was literally called the Prince of Darkness. And now the position is that they couldn't have possibly guessed he was lying.
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
cc @iandunt.bsky.social
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Watch this. You need it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Congratulations to @comfortero.crisisgroup.org for her place on the New Years' Honours list in recognition of Comfort’s services to Crisis Response and Conflict Prevention.
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It brings me no pleasure to report that my beat — offshore wind power — skyrocketed to the top of new sites today. I just published a scoop about Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes. Here's a mega🧵 🔗 2nd post is a link to my scoop 🎁 last post is a gift
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19/12/2025
Charlotte Bailey’s article on asbestos has been named one of Longreads’ Best of 2025:
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Asbestos: a public health catastrophe
In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of...
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Usually topical, always unforgettable, number one stories exemplify the power of the written word to pique our curiosity and move us as human beings." Proud that my piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on asbestos was a @longreads.com number one story this year. longreads.com/2025/12/17/b...
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Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks - Longreads
Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Europe imagines it can win at Washington’s “neo-royalist” game. Trump sees Europe as an extension of his domestic retribution campaign. Both are wrong, and both underestimate Europe’s ability to fight back (if it finds the will). My thoughts for @agendapublica.es: agendapublica.es/noticia/2047...
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Against Donald Trump, a Europe that abandons its illusions and wields its coercive power
For Jeremy Cliffe, editor at the ECFR think tank, the administration’s National Security Strategy confirms that both Europe and Washington misunderstand their relationship. In his analysis, he argues ...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The shift in Europe is part of a wider pattern: groundwater is depleting in parts of the Middle East, Asia, South America, along the US west coast + across swathes of Canada, Greenland, Iceland + Svalbard. We need to act now to preserve what is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside. The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy. Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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The Britcard – progressive or concerning? | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The Government is considering Labour Together's proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in an effort to tackle irregular migration. There are problems with that.
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
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Plan to water down laws protecting national parks branded ‘outrageous’
Campaigners said that the change being considered by ministers, which would increase the number of developments and building projects, would be ‘devastating’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2025
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
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Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”. The US president is expected to arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. He will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment as ministers attempt to preserve the special relationship, including a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania. Continue reading...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Thank you for this beautiful piece @pollyrowena.bsky.social I remember hating this book and other nature cure narratives as my dad died prematurely from a terminal cancer. Nobody I knew had spent more time walking in the great outdoors than he had.
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy” on.ft.com/3HH41Ze
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Europe is selling its soul to Trump
What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
An astonishing story
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is bizarre... everyone I know who went into teaching via this route is still teaching 15 years later
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
- PFAS forever chemicals above proposed safety limits in nearly all English rivers, lakes & ponds, study finds - levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average Our new article out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
But it is good he's U-turned on this @charlottehelen.bsky.social
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The morning "hire expensive consultants for ethnic cleansing planning" read: #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 15/06/2025
‘“because the models are not set up to solve problems, or to reason, but to predict the most plausible-sounding sentence based on the reams of data they have hoovered up, a better word for their factual hiccups is not “hallucinations” but “bullshit”.’ #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed | Heather Stewart
Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Missing my dad this Father’s Day. Still encouraging people to read this piece.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Reform and the Conservatives have a joint campaign that London is a crime-ridden hellhole. (Yes, it’s code for their typical racism.) So here’s the truth.
Crime is down
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CHEM Trust @chemtrust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
👏🏾 Over 150 medical professionals have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to support a full phase out of PFAS #foreverchemicals, including in the healthcare sector 👉🏼 chemtrust.org/medical-prof...
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Medical professionals urge the EU to phase-out PFAS, including in the healthcare sector
Over 150 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, people working in the healthcare sector, and experts on PFAS, have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to pha...
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry www.su.se/department-o...
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Scientists defend widely used definition of PFASs - Department of Environmental Science
In a new paper published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand from the Department of Environmen...
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I loved this book by @drlornagibb.bsky.social . I came late to languages, which I like to blame on poor teaching, but it was likely my own poor attitude. But now I’m learning Korean and German and how much a language holds. This book is a kaleidoscope of knowledge about language, culture and life.
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Brilliant review, and so well deserved ❤️
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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 05/06/2025
A new report paints a worrying picture for media freedom in the #UK: 🗞️Most journalists face personal threats for doing their jobs 🗞️Nearly half believe the truth is being shaped by those in power Index’s Mark Stimpson breaks down the worrying findings: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
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Charlotte Helen Bailey @charlottehelen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So good @mariahblake.bsky.social
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the winning collection.
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The winners of the 2025 International Booker Prize are breaking boundaries.
The winners of this year’s International Booker Prize were announced this Tuesday. Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the wi…
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Plants produce more nectar when they hear bees buzzing... 🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Plants produce more nectar when they ‘hear’ bees buzzing, scientists find
Researchers suggest buzzing noises could be used as environmentally friendly way to enhance crop pollination
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