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Fathom Deep @fathomdeep.bsky.social · 6h
The GP has also decided to prevent the Green Women's Declaration from attending the party conference. Ie, a group of feminists who believe that biological sex is at the root of women's oppression aren't welcome.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 9h
All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future of the Triple Lock
The questions I’ve been asked most after Andy Burnham’s speech - and what the answers are.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h
Course the Mail on Sunday backed Remain back in 2016 (under a different editor from the daily). Not that they choose to remember that often.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 20h
"'In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped' and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney, Ms. Hochul said." A world in which the police report to a university president who was appointed by a wholly unaccountable group of rich people
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Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17h
#ResistanceEarth In Florida, you supposedly get lots of "freedom," except the freedom to learn real science. Florida has proposed new K-12 science standards that omit evolution and climate change. Yeah, that's going to prepare the state's kids for the future. www.wusf.org/education/20...
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Evolution and climate change are missing from Florida's proposed K-12 science standards
The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 9h
These terrible increases would make council tax in Hammersmith and Fulham (average house price £730k) about the same as in Hull (average house price £170k) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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London Labour council warns it may raise council tax by 150%
Hammersmith and Fulham says it faces ‘biggest financial challenge in living memory’ as government cuts bite
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h
Talk about not reading the room...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21h
Agree with this. Curtice has worked very closely with organisations committed to proportional representation (including the ERS when I worked there). No serious democracy group endorses the (2 preference) Supplementary Vote system *over* PR. It's better than FPTP sure, but that's not saying much.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Tom Irwin @tomi.eurosky.social · 20h
Was curious about the @atproto.com decentralising gubbins, so now have a @eurosky.social handle. Easy migration and now my data is on European servers. It's cool how you can do it if you want, but if you don't or it's too confusing you can just... not, and the whole experience is still the same.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
news.met.police.uk
Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 18h
The 2028 Republican nominee, everyone:
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the occupied Oleshky area reflects the coercive logic of Russian occupation governance in a heavily damaged frontline city. (1/4) Read the full report: isw.pub/OleshkyCrisi...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
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Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030, but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says Andy Burnham will pass legislation to scrap the state pension triple lock in this parliament, even though the guarantee will remain until 2030, the government has said. The prime minister used his conference speech to announce a change to the policy, which guarantees that the state pension rises by the highest of 2.5%, inflation or earnings growth. Continue reading...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Makes sense. Then Tories/Reform either have to back it in an election or be quizzed on what they'll cut to pay for it.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Awful.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h
Hahaha. Muscovite Russians are whiter than snow and I'm not sure "high trust society" and "social cohesion" are the exact terms sociologists reach for when describing life in Moscow at any point in the last century or three.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 23h
elites used to impunity struggling to adjust to punity
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Pretty clear, I think.
Chart: Monthly job creation in the U.S.
January 2022-September 2026
September's 29,000 net jobs created missed expectations, and estimates for July and August were revised down by 60,000 combined.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hope! With a side order of rage about the generally flimsy coverage elsewhere on Burnham's policy and ideas heavy speech.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Davey is clearly personally very wedded to Care reforms, and has always been pro PR. And his party very pro EU. The PM is promoting all three. Surely a moment to celebrate and engage meaningfully rather than point score alienating your own MPs & members? news.sky.com/story/lib-de...
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Lib Dem triple lock revolt deepens as internal document seen by Sky News seized on by disgruntled MPs
Sir Ed Davey's response to Andy Burnham's pledge to change the triple lock has caused anger among Liberal Democrat MPs.
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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This synagogue, which is round the corner from me and down the road from their conference, supports the green movement, is LGBTQ+ friendly and is committed to Palestine as part of a two-state solution. Any Green Party member attending will be considered a racist.
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Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Except that he didn't. And the death toll from Israel's ongoing genocide continues to rise. "nearly" means nothing.
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why women aren’t getting social justice. Men tell us we have to accept a trade off.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More evidence of UK economy’s strong first half to the year, despite the very real impact of the Iran war: - ONS have revised up growth (and gdp/capita growth) in Q2 to 0.5% - confirms the UK as the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2026 (given growth of 0.6% in Q1)
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Arthur Clune @arthur.clune.org · 30/09/2026
Having a system where we get our top researchers to spend their time writing grants with a 5% success rate rather than doing research seems less than ideal
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Think is the problem of being oppositional rather than just the Opposition. Implementation is only going to happen if you lose the next election, so why not have input into shaping it - and even if you don't want to co-operate, politically, storm out when they suggest sth you can paint as outrageous
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I also think it's very telling that when anyone suggests tweaks to the triple-lock or the winter fuel allowance or whatever, it prompts a backlash of GENERATIONAL WARFARE WHY DO THEY HATE OLD PEOPLE. And then stuff like this that is literally pitting generations against each other... crickets
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coeliacexpat.bsky.social @coeliacexpat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stolpersteine are everywhere in 🇩🇪. And rightly so. Each one represents a human life, destroyed by an evil regime. This is profoundly depressing:
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Prem knew about it for years and allowed it b/c Man U was becoming a shitshow and they needed another club with global reach — one that would expand the league’s dominance in new markets. And it worked. So they let it continue. Business decision. www.theguardian.com/football/201...
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Arsène Wenger accuses Manchester City of bending Uefa fair-play rules
Arsène Wenger has called on Uefa to investigate Manchester City's sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A big petro-state did it and ran away"
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is pathetic. Obviously political parties must allow journalists to attend their conferences, including journalists from outlets that have strong ideological disagreements with them.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UK has added 291,000 new solar PV installations in the 12 months to August 2026, the most in any 12-month period since 2012 It brings the cumulative installed solar in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations. It's also a 9% increase from August 2025, with 1.9GW of new capacity
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UK installs record 291,000 PV installations in 12-month period
This brings the cumulative installed solar capacity in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As I set out, we in “the Fourth Estate” have a particular responsibility to the open society because it makes our lives a hell of a lot easier: we are the biggest single beneficiaries from it.
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Phillip Geddes Memorial Lecture 2026
YouTube video by St Edmund Hall
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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this for all the naysayers who continually wang on about how impossible it would be for the UK to rejoin the EU.
Screenshot from the Financial Times of a photo of Macron and Sanchez shaking hands, above the text:  Emmanuel Macron, French president, and Pedro Sánchez, Spain's prime minister, both said the UK would be welcomed back into the bloc, which it voted to leave in the acrimonious Brexit referendum in 2016.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Uk govt wanted to continue the routes for return pilot - but France decided to end the pilot. The deal let 1500 people to come under a controlled route - and enabled 1500 returns. A bigger UK-EU deal of this type is most viable way to stop dangerous crossings www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK-France ‘one in one out’ deal to expire on Thursday, say sources
Deal aimed at deterring small boat arrivals set to end as talks stall over French demand for EU-wide scheme
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
A genuine humanitarian. All those children. All those young refugees. Separated from their parents because the Daily Mail, politicians, and others in 1930s UK, refused refuge to their parents, thousands of whom died in the Holocaust.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For Schmitt one can only feel pity: an unintelligent man, out of his depth making an idiot of himself. Kennedy otoh cosplays a Hicksville moron, but has a 1st class law degree from Oxford (as well as other prestigious institutions). He knows so much better. So we should feel nothing but contempt.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the most ghastly story- a “will they, won’t they” debate about whether Tennessee will execute a woman today - leaving her in tortured limbo. The death penalty is abhorrent and should not be allowed in a civilized society.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"You sometimes need to talk about what you’d like to do to give you space to actually do it. The first step towards winning an argument is actually being willing to make it." On the unexpected experience of feeling hope - and impressed by Andy Burnham, of all people
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The Audacity of Hope
This week: Andy Burnham’s bringing sunshine back. Also: of Cardiff, Welshness and what it means to be a capital; and a helpful map of accident blackspots.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even if not a single player from the 114 charges era were there, everything every club does builds on their successes and mistakes from the time before. Everything they have achieved comes with that asterisk as a result.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Few people still trying this 'continuity Starmer' line. It's a very poor attack. Wrong on substance and wrong intuitively. They'll have to find a better one.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poor quality. Lacking in nuance or detail. Taking the viewers for idiots. Fundamentally misrepresenting both the PM and some key elements of his speech in parts.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incidentally, Burnham referring to the two previous conference votes on proportional representation is a tribute to the diligent work of campaigners in the party. They worked extremely hard to build a base of support in Labour, against the odds.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is utterly clueless & why the Lib Dems need a new leader. This is a potentially progressive moment and they should be part of it. Polanski was more positive than Davey, and this reads like chat GPT
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congrats @ethangcroft.bsky.social - also of Ellesmere Port + Everton, like me - on writing the defintive piece for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on Andy Burnham as an Evertonian, born in title season of Harvey, Kendall & Ball + a teenager in our 80s golden age www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham's Scouse soul
Everton FC is part of the Prime Minister's politics as much as his identity
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