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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🚨🚨I was lucky enough to pin down the brilliant Frank Ledwidge to talk about the resignation of John Healy and the mess that our armed forces are in. @frankledwidge.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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EMERGENCY EPISODE: the resignation of John Healey

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 11 June · 42min

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I knew that @snellarthur.bsky.social would explain the context of John Healey’s resignation (with a perfectly chosen guest in @frankledwidge.bsky.social). How refreshing to be INFORMED, rather than merely treated to speculation about what it means for Keir Starmer.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

really enjoyed having a geeky US Midterms discussion with @sturdyalex.bsky.social

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In case you missed it earlier, I've been talking to the @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social podcast about my new book on the Blair governments and the crisis in Higher Education... Take a listen! megaphone.link/NSR1340804685

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The Universities’ Doom Spiral – Can Britain avert disaster? by Oh God, What Now?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'll be launching my book on the Blair governments in London on Monday 9 March! Between 6.30pm and 8pm. We'll be at the Gilded Acorn bookshop between LSE and the Hunterian... Come along! Booking details below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-labour...

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New Labour, New Britain: How the Blair Government Reshaped the Country

Join Glen O'Hara at the Gilded Acorn, where he will be discussing his new book: New Labour, New Britain!

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

As you see the reports out of Texas SD-9, keep in mind: This was the cash discrepancy. Money speaks -- but it's not as loud as it used to be.

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I have just listened to this. It was my first time listening to a Behind the Lines podcast with @snellarthur.bsky.social , and after listening I feel approximately 95% better informed than I was before. Highly recommended.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas, dear supporters, gorgeous friends, and precious listeners. Check your apps first thing, for a cracker 2025 Review, with @mrjamesob.bsky.social. We'd never abandon you without company, on what can be a pretty stressful day. 🎁 ☃️ We love you lots! A, N, K & other A x

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

By this time tonight I was meant to have made my bread sauce, cranberry sauce and begun the gingerbread stuffing, and yet I find myself, tasks still undone, on my sofa, with drink and cake to hand, happily gazing at my Christmas-Grotto-garden. Rather thrilled with my new light-up deer, I must say.

Photograph of my garden with light-up deer and fairy lights

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

You could argue that the roast potatoes are the most important element to get right at Christmas. Perfect Roast Potatoes create perfect happiness. Which is why they are, indeed, #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/perf...

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Perfect Roast Potatoes

Needs must and all that, so I have always been an open anti-perfectionist, but in truth (and I’m sorry to repeat what I’ve said before) it is impossible to cook roast potatoes without needing them to ...

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Full text of peace plan 🇺🇦🇺🇸

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/12/2025

The UK Trade and Business Commission’s new report sets out how the UK and the EU could implement a Youth Experience Scheme. “The report is likely to give weight to the arguments of Britain’s negotiators in talks over the deal,” writes Arj Singh. Read: bit.ly/48tqyTY

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is a significant report on UK-EU youth experience / mobility as the first to be released from either side on how the scheme outlined in May's common understanding could actually work in practice. I'm pleased to have been involved as an adviser.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🆕 SPOILER ALERT - Unpicking the Budget 📈 The good stuff The less good stuff The economic rationale The political consequences Balance, humour, @pimlicat.bsky.social , @sturdyalex.bsky.social & top economist Vicky Pryce. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/05mP... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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Unpicking the most-leaked Budget in history, with Vicky Pryce

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 26/11/2025 · 1h 18m

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Sorry, everyone. I think we've gone and done a thoughtful, balanced episode on #Budget2026, that is more about the economics and the politics, rather than the gossippy nonsense that gets hacks excited. #NotSorry

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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31. That is correct, it is the OBR figure. Here is what you may not have seen. Of the £406.2bn A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit. Facts matter.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Nice. Now negotiate a return to the programme known as the EU.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

NEW: We are joined by Luke Tryl to talk about everything from: 🔵📉 Tory Party Demise 🏆 Trump’s ache for a NobelP 🇪🇺🇬🇧 reducing reliance on 🇺🇸 Plus Wokey Dokey is BACK. @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZMU... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The scale of the backlog arises because the Sunak government, while clearing the 2022 backlog, stops processing asylum claims of those who arrive in 2023-24, despite having no real world prospect of removing 99% of those it is accommodating, in limbo. No plan except to leave it to after the election

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Colin Baines @colinbaines15.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

@quietriotpod.bsky.social wonder how far this translates across to reform/tory playbook- for me it’s the nhs versus US health insurance that is a bulwark against a ‘fear’ of empathy

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🎉 Some exciting housekeeping news in tomorrow’s show🎉 Make sure to be subscribed wherever you get your podcasts

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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 02/07/2025

UK chemistry industry professionals Please fill in this short survey to help CAMS help us all by modernizing what graduates are taught with respect to data handling. Which can be as simple as organizing yourself and naming files sensibly! #chemsky forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The ongoing marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the the largest marine anomalies observed globally

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨 WALES SPECIAL: Senedd Stakes Labour’s future, Reform’s rise, the fate of Taith, and who’s winning the long game ahead of #Senedd2026. @pimlicat.bsky.social chats to @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. #WelshPolitics #QuietRiot 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5etY... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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Wales 2026: The Battle Begins

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S2, E69 Bonus · 28m

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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

England win the toss and put India in to bat! 🏏 Come on England! #ENGvIND

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Brexit: the next phase. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the Gibraltar agreement ending the A50 issues, and the Reset Summit over, we're entering a period of technical adjustments. Thoughts on that, and the 9th anniversary of the Referendum: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/brex...

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Lika @kleines.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Yes, We are still alive and resisting. But gdream of course wants to kill protests in Georgia. Don't forget about us ♥️ #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My kingdom for an edit button. FFS.

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Classic Vienna. -- After all these years, I still find new features at the Stephansdom: like this statue of St. Lawrence (with the gridiron used to torture him), atop one of the romanesque towers above the main entrance. #Vienna #photography

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The stats say Trident was even more popular than Teeth on its first day, so join many, many other More Jam Tomorrow fans and listen to me and Bertrand Russell talking about the end of the world. morejamtomorrow.com/episode/trid...

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Trident

Seventy years ago, on an island off Australia, we started something we couldn’t finish. This is the story of Britain’s nuclear deterrent, Trident — why we have...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 06/06/2025

Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse Scottish Parliamentary By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 31.6% (-2.0) 🎗️ SNP: 29.4% (-16.8) ➡️ RFM: 26.1% (New) 🌳 CON: 6.0% (-11.5) 🌍 GRN: 2.6% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.0% (-0.8) 🔴 SSP: 1.0% 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 SFP: 0.8% 🙋 Ind: 0.4% 💷 UKIP: 0.2% Labour GAIN from SNP.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🚨🚨you won’t want to miss this!!🚨🚨 Mike Martin MP on the Strategic Defence Review @libdems.org.uk podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Mike Martin MP on the Strategic Defence Review

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 04/06/2025 · 35m

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The next More Jam Tomorrow is out ... tomorrow! And it's timely, given what the Strategic Defence Review said this week: "The UK is deliberately ambiguous about precisely when, how and at what scale it would contemplate the use of nuclear weapons." www.morejamtomorrow.com

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When you need to see a GP, you can - though you might have to wait a couple of weeks. But half the people who need an NHS dentist have no realistic chance of finding one. Tooth pain is agonisin...

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