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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I doubt it'll work out this way, but it'd be interesting if you could get to a state where there's cross-party agreement on what the new service will look like, and you even get a lot of the ground work done to build it - then fight the general election on how you fund it.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a good point. We need to stop treating AI bots as if they are autonomous beings.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Important caveat: ministers love to say benefit claimants shouldn’t be “written off” and it’s vital 16-24 year olds with significant physical disabilities aren’t dismissed. Some will want and be able to work but need specialist support and genuine opportunities, alongside the financial protection.

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OK and this is what's going to get me to delete my Facebook account at last.

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In a surprise move, Manchester City has declared its candidacy for President of the United States.

Someone has been playing bagpipes within earshot of my house for the last couple of hours.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You have to talk to people you don't like. That is what diplomacy is. You can't do diplomacy if you only talk to your friends. Very occasionally, isolating a country diplomatically might be a smart move, but it's a tactical tool, not a moral imperative.

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Also... this is not exactly improving diversity on the bench is it?

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I pay less attention to the legal world these days and I'd somehow missed the Chancery division being renamed. While in fact, it's a good idea to call things what they are instead of using obfuscating language, my inner legal historian does feel a bit sad about this.

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I'm not sure what concessions Badenoch thinks Cameron made to the Lib Dems.

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The difficulty for Badenoch though is that Burnham probably doesn't need the Tories to do as well against Reform as she needs Labour to. What's an uncomfortable strategic position.

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Likewise Burnham benefits from the Tories surviving - and ideally not getting a complete thumping from Reform. In this environment, they both benefit from a relatively civil election in which they can make Reform look immature and unserious.

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While I think the spring is more likely, an early election is a real possibility. I also think Badenoch's approach to Burnham is interesting. It is not in her interests for Reform to take a load of seats from Labour. She actually needs him to do fairly well.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a kid it was tremendously exciting to have a theme tune. Still is.

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I was very much a fan of this growing up. I watch with interest!

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The centre right never believed the warnings from the left that the radical right was still present in their movement. It's true the left sometimes cries wolf - but at the end of that story, there was a wolf.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK I had been on team It's All Marketing but now I'm a bit worried.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thinking of buying a flat in the near future. What is this bollocks?

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Which is not to say I'm not vulnerable to any of the above, but I think I find peoples' acceptance of AI irritating in the same way I find people singing an advertising jingle in the same way as a pop song.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like there might be an interesting intersection here with people who don't realise that the US style waitress is being paid to be friendly to them and it's not real. Or who believe the claims of adverts as much as they do a documentary. Or who develop a lot of parasocial realtionships.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chucked the RNLI a small donation today. I hope they're getting a good surge of much-needed support right now.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Firstly there is a hard right party waiting for them in the shape of Restore and secondly the hard right is driven by racism and bigotry, not 'legitimate concerns' - reducing immigration will not be enough for them. It's just the cloak they wear.

Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I get the sense that at least some in the Labour camp think that with Reform's troubles and migration numbers coming down, the hard right has peaked and will whither away. I think that's wrong.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have never felt more opposed to politically elected police commissioners than now.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12/11/2025

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Or, actually, considering his record in that position, perhaps he saw himself as a champion of the Saxon cause...

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Redwood is a former Welsh Secretary - surely he isn't legitimising the Saxon invasion of Britain...

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Obviously not the best analogy as that was a case where the court very obviously wanted the law to be changed, while in the present examples it is at best neutral. But even so, the attitude that it is Parliament's job to sort out legal fuckery is important. 3/3

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In the case of Ashford v Thornton 1818 the King's Bench found that trial by combat was still good law in an appeal of murder (by the prosecution). The response of Parliament was to go 'ah, shit, we don't want it to be' and abolish it - and the ancient Appeal of Death - the following year. 2/

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I think there is truth in this. In English jurisprudence the role of the appellate courts has been to determine what the law currently is - but where it's clearly gotten a bit fucked, to point that out so Parliament can fix it. An old but fun example is the abolition of trial by combat in 1819. 1/

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Didn't Corbyn try this for a bit?

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Somewhere between the solar system and a distant galaxy, a spaceship performs a screatching U-Turn.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Surely a mayor ought to be saying ‘It’s a good idea in principle but there will be complaints from the local residents about the noise and disruption of construction and there’s no money for that sort of thing anyway.’?

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Aside from anything else, if you're going to do this, surely name it after the adjacent State - it's not called Lake Canada after all. Admittedly Lake New York sounds a bit silly but then that's fitting for this exercise in souring grapes.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make you favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Military leader seeks contact with estranged son to help him with career advancement. In space.

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Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Facilitate career development. If some roles are just inherently lacking in meaning for most people doing them, make them high turnover entry positions that lead to more fulfilling positions, instead of traps that make it hard to move on without taking significant personal risk. 4/4