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Chris Jones

@christopherrjones.bsky.social
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Retired Professor and also a retired firefighter. Emeritus at Liverpool John Moores University. Evertonian 💙

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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great explainer 👍
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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brilliant!
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
aje.news/q2xyin A fair comment from someone who knows from expérience.
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Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism
The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And this has been the case for quite a while. This is properly existential
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires We need to do something to stop it - urgently www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lest we forget: the dark legacy of 9/111 that still haunts the very prospect of Western democracy www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...
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Sept. 11, 1973: U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile
Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People."
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"champions of free speech" latest
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
After Arday resigned from Cambridge and said he could take no more, the press wrote another 188 articles about him newscord.org/editorials/j...
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Jason Arday. The media pile on was from the top of the market, not the tabloids
Peter Jukes has analysed the media pile on that took place before and indeed on the day of the tragic death of Jason Arday. A key conclusion is below One honest finding up front: this was not a red…
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Maybe Jason Arday’s death can offer us lessons in not rushing to glib judgements; in not joining the unthinking pack; and – above all - in keeping a sense of proportion and plain humanity. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Jason Arday was a victim of the worst kind of media pile-on
The former Cambridge professor suffered a relentless campaign of coverage against him. His death should teach us an important lesson about keeping a s...
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/07/2026
AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is very troubling. Protesters not prosecuted as terrorists as prosecutors feared they would not have been convicted. So charged with criminal damage. Guilty. And now CPS wants them sentenced as terrorists. bit.ly/4x5xiRf What is happening to our sense of justice?
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The country owes these people a debt of gratitude. Ordinary people who have achieved something extraordinary. Heroes every one.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 09/07/2026
Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in Montenegro? Sign up for the openDemocracy weekly newsletter to stay informed on all our latest reporting – it's free ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/sign-weekly-...
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Over 40 paragraphs down, the view of the International Energy Agency "It is up to the government, but these fields would not change much for the UK's energy security, nor would they change the price of oil and gas" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jackdaw boss warns of winter fuel shortages if gas field not approved
Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage is a self centered whinge bag and he is flailing by forcing a by-election in Clacton
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"In one chapter [of Cottrell's book] entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', [he] sets out how politicians can be bought....'Long-term relationships keep the bought person in hand while you're making money'". Subtle. www.ft.com/content/7a0f...
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Nigel Farage under scrutiny over aide who wrote book on money-laundering
Reform UK says gifts from convicted fraudster George Cottrell were personal despite him having party business card
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is incorrect Welsh Water is not in public ownership, it's a 'not for profit' which loses 41% of bills to finance costs, same as Thames Water Publicly owned Scottish Water on the other hand has finance costs of only 8% - and 50% more investment www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
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‘Complicated and expensive’: Burnham is right about the risks of nationalisation | Nils Pratley
Track record of Welsh Water shows public ownership is not the answer to all the woes in the utilities sector
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The heat is really getting to some people isn't it? Neither are covering themselves in glory here. But at least the terrible policy is being analysed seriously at last ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mahmood restricts minister's access to documents as Home Office row escalates
Shabana Mahmood believes Mike Tapp should be sacked for writing an article but No 10 says the PM is taking advice.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/06/2026
Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it." Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Is there a crowdfunder to buy Baroness Carr a history book?
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/06/2026
“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.” Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter. “I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anyone remember Farage having cold rage about this, or Yaxley Lennon calling for demos on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Neo-Nazi teenager jailed for attempting to murder man with an axe
A 19-year-old approached the victim from behind and swung an axe at his neck.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Left: Nigel Farage using the murder of Henry Nowak to sew division in society, "rights of white people matter less than ethnic minorities" Right: Henry Nowak's father, "We do not want his death used to create further division hated or tension"
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
N=26 (after weighting) so it's not exactly a secure finding.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 01/06/2026
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 31/05/2026
The top civil servant at the Health Department "worked for or held shares in 12 companies that benefited from public contracts with DHSC or related health organisations" She was elevated to the top role by Wes Streeting She should resign. And we must end NHS privatisation.
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system
NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
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Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.
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BREAKING: A court will seek to sentence four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage as terrorists even though they were not convicted of terror charges, in a move kept secret from the jury.
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Judge Johnson is expected to add a 'terrorist connection' to the charges of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona (Ellie) Kamio and Fatema Rajwani under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020, despite the jury only convicting them of criminal damage and
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Wow. This is damning. Government really needs to look at office for students, a regulator that seemed to be created as a culture war play and certainly was acting like one in this case
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
An honest assessment of where the Labour Party is now
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🔴 SCOOP: Remember Labour Together paid PR firm APCO £36,000 to investigate journalists? Now the firm has been reported to Serious Fraud Office + senior APCO executive told a freelance contractor to destroy evidence of Labour Together work NEW on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...
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Labour Together PR firm tried to destroy crucial evidence
Controversial firm reported to Serious Fraud Office after senior executive ordered deletion of evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against journalists
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 08/04/2026
The fact that the previous openness of the Strait of Hormuz was “guaranteed” by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which neither Iran nor the US has ratified shows how much customary rather than black letter law actually governed the era of free trade globalism.
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Chris Jones @christopherrjones.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
US Vice President interferes in an EU election by complaining about interference 🙄
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
#OnThisDay 20 years ago ... Gordon Brown announced free bus travel for pensioners and disabled people anywhere in England. Great policy that has stood the test of time.
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