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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 6h

Much of this is unsurprising, given the general coverage (including from outlets not usually Labour friendly, as such), but encouraging nonetheless.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 11h

Of the many takes and forensic analyses of Andy Burnham's conference speech, this is the best. Fair, genuine, encouraging and inspiring. Everyone should listen.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems pretty depressing to think we've all become so used to the rut of the last 10-15 years of political discourse that this now feels like a revelation. Arguing for a position works??

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EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm really not one for conspiracy theories, but how many different bullshit air traffic control stories do we have to endure before we're really told what's going on?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know we're only a month in, but who had Brentford, Leeds, Hull and Brighton as top 6 chasing pack on their Premier League bingo card? #PremierLeague

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meanwhile... In Manchester... Human decency raises its head at Anglesey watches...

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Massive respect for the courage shown by this poor lady, speaking so honestly and openly on camera on national television. How have we fallen so far?

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Labour shouldn't be too worried about the £72M donations to Reform. The government has far more power to influence voters' positive impressions of tangible changes to their lives in the next few years. Andy Burnham does seem to get this, judging by the policies he's prioritised.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This article outlines everything wrong with the attitude towards awards (at least from journalists). There are many shows worthy of winning - that's usually why they were nominated - so Hacks didn't "fail terribly". It got loads of nominations but other shows were more popular in each category.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If I go on the news and declare that Donald Trump represents a 40% chance of destroying humanity in the next 2 years, will there be fevered coverage and people starting to plan how to remove him?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is there a word or phrase for that specific type of memory when you listen to an album for the first time in years or even decades and find you still remember every lyric, melody and even musical moments and flourishes?

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)

I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For some reason, this whole thing has shocked me into action, and I have written to my MP for the first time in 10 years, urging them to speak out and put pressure on the government to act decisively in the face of this racist intimidation group.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If only there had been some warning what Tommo was planning...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nigel Farage resigns when he shouldn't, but doesn't resign when he should.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/09/2026

the first rule of Crime Club is that you have to talk openly about your crimes as often as possible

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026

Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

*cough* If I may be allowed a moderate brag, this was the day he was appointed to the shadow cabinet, more than a year ago. I thank you. What a perfect time to subscribe to @quietriotpod.bsky.social on your podcast app of choice. x

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ryanevans47.bsky.social @ryanevans47.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vagnoman scores a worldly goal & then loses his footing trying to clear the ball & puts it in his own net for an own goal. Crazy. #FCBVfB #Bundesliga

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nature abhors a vacuum cleaner

The base of a Henry hoover turned into a plant container, with gorgeous flowers growing out of it - even the nose.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/07/2026

Every. Single. Time.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.

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I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There is a good number of reasons to be optimistic, but Mahmood and Nandy?!? Really, Andy??

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Starmer failed because there was no plan. This is, for better or worse, a plan. And I'd say one that so far sounds like it might come closer to what people felt like they were voting for in 2024. Some sense of putting the public realm back together and making it less shit in the everyday for people.

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 19/07/2026

Scrap the Romesh thing just clip Wayne Rooney saying he thought the half time show was crap and the licence fee QR code

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Cynical, scheming, boring and then - finally, inevitably - violent. Properly shameful operation which shouldn't be whitewashed by being called 'streetwise'.

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