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@davidisinberlin.bsky.social
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Computer nerd, but don’t expect work stuff here. Opinions only my own - who else's would they be? Ex-London, still a bit Yorkshire. 🇬🇧 in Berlin 🇩🇪 (he/him). 🗣️🇩🇪 und 🇬🇧

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/10/2026
One of the most fascinating (and telling) charts I've seen in a long time.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who could possibly have imagined it?
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why has this live-streaming serial criminal not been arrested?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bridget Phillipson on the BBC about Jim Ratcliffe's latest complaints about the UK: "You'll forgive me if I do take with a pinch of salt what someone who is a tax tax exile has to say about our country."
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/08/2026
This is the cost of RFK's conspiracy theories & this admin's attacks on evidence-based science. 26 years ago, the US eliminated measles. Now, in Maryland & across America, we're seeing outbreaks & we risk losing elimination status. The measles vaccine is safe & effective. Period.
healthline.com
U.S. Measles Cases Hit Record-Breaking 35-Year High, 2 Deaths Reported
U.S. measles cases in 2026 have surpassed the total for 2025, marking a 35-year high. The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status, which it has held since 2000. Experts say vaccine hes...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I have the feeling these are the documents Trump is given by his staff to show him how loved and successful he is, which is why he's so delusional about his performance.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dear God what a tragedy
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indeed. SS embodies the whole sorry mess, in that hardly anyone in it ever saw Arday as a person. For Cambridge he was a way to buff their credentials, to be discarded when he became embarrassing. For Sodha he was a prop to air grievances about “gender ideology”.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There is no rigorous evidence that Gundry’s lectin-free diet works and may actually be harmful, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Gundry has also pushed questionable theories about other health topics too. In an episode on the popular Doctor Mike’s YouTube channel in defense of his diet, Gundry argued that smoking can actually make some people live longer. It finally took my pro-vaccine dad reading Gundry’s Wikipedia page—which includes Gundry’s claim in an abstract that mRNA Covid vaccines “dramatically increase” inflammation—for him to leave me alone on this topic. A Reuters report says that Gundry’s abstract, which also received an extensive correction, doesn’t contain “reliable evidence.” Conversely, research does show that Covid vaccines decrease inflammatory markers when people get a Covid infection.
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David @davidisinberlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I saw the tour round his office he did, he’s basically taken over a meeting and put some things on the walls? Room booking in Outlook and half a day’s work.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I stand with trans people and I will fight alongside them for their rights as if they were my own. And yes, also, if trans rights are lost, they’ll come for gay rights next. . #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #transpride #transpridelondon #lgbwiththet
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So - from their perspective, smart. As I say in today’s note, saying “well, the voters of Clacton don’t have a problem with it” is like saying “well, my mother still loves me” in response workplace criticism: it may be true but it’s not really relevant.
ft.com
Re-election would not put Nigel Farage in the clear
Opposition parties refuse to stand against scandal-hit politician in Reform’s safest seat of Clacton
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Not so much “rattled” as “toys out of the pram”.
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David @davidisinberlin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I mean, he’s surely only passing through Reform, on his way to Restore.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I sort of disagree, I think this is her trying to establish an aggressive enough support base on the assumption she is liable to be sacked otherwise, and if she is sacked she can declare this to be why and build her faction.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It somehow never occurs to these people that Pete Buttigieg might appear to be kinda square not because he is performing squareness to appeal to conservatives but because his authentic personality is kinda square.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
'Student loans but for people awarded refugee status' is pitch perfect this government
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 29/06/2026
Amusing to see so many commentators lose their minds about Burnham before he’s even done anything. Many have been used to being able to bore nebulously about liberal metropolitan elites. Doesn’t work so well against the MP for Makerfield who anchors his politics in the north.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sack her, bin her policies, eject her into the outer darkness. The worst case of Home Office brain I’ve ever seen
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The Mail comes out firmly against right to buy
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/06/2026
Ex-Treasury official Sharon White says on BBC One that Britain has "the highest debt, the highest overdraft if you like, across any of the developed countries". Erm, no we don't?
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 26/06/2026
Hugely going to regret doing an essay based on a @stephenkb.bsky.social rant.
martinrobbins.substack.com
On Picky Bits and National Decline
'Picky Bits' may seem like a harmless phrase, but the mentality behind it explains a lot about the position we find ourselves in.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
substack.com
A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Amazingly MattGPT cannot even do a fake populist photo opp without screwing it up
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I think this is smart: you get the political benefit of moving Parliament without having to do two expensive and politically costly infrastructure projects, you just buy a building, and it allows the PM to ostentatiously return to his marginal seat every week.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
No one necessarily needs me to join in the commentary about this utter pudding of a piece, but I *love* the idea of an comment article on how Westminster has lost track of the interests of ordinary people also utterly dismissing out of hand the political relevance of bus travel.
 CAMILLA LONG
Labour’s doomed unless it stops throwing voters under a bus on immigrationA typical Blairite, Burnham preferred to talk in detail about education and “bus fares” — bus fares! — rather than immigration, which is what almost everyone on the doorstep in Makerfield, especially Reform voters, talked about.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And now every government dept should, belatedly, follow.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Deep in a large and now Sky tv enabled house somewhere in North Yorkshire, a hysterical laugh is heard
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
SpaceX market cap $2.1tn Microsoft market cap $2.8tn SpaceX revenue ~$20bn Microsoft revenue ~$300bn Incredible.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I think I’m in the annoy everyone camp. Yes, defence spending needs to rise faster than the proposed timeline suggests but the vision set-out in the Defence Review is unrealistic and avoids hard choices. Plus defence procurement is still a mess and the MOD is often a financial blackhole.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
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Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada
To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...
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David @davidisinberlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very sad 😢
reuters.com
David Hockney, the British artist who went in search of Californian colour, dies at 88
As a child growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A view very clearly developed in London and not Belfast. ~86% of Northern Ireland's population were born there. A further ~7% are immigrants from the rest of the UK and ROI. ~6.5% are immigrants from outside the UK & ROI, many from the EU. The uncontrolled immigration argument is nonsense.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2026
Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
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Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones Low emission and clean air zones attract controversy whenever they are proposed, but there is growing evidence that they work in improving air quality. The Bradford zone was followed by a reduction of about 25% in GP visits for heart and breathing problems and survey data shows that the central London zone was followed by a reduction in the likelihood of a person taking sick leave. Now analysis of health records has found emergency admissions to hospital reduced after the introduction of the T-charge and ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) in central London. Continue reading...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Call me cynical, but nothing says “I was waiting to see if I was offered defence secretary” like waiting the best part of six hours after your boss has quit to resign.
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David @davidisinberlin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Un-British is absolutely correct.
bbc.co.uk
Changing visa rules for care workers is wrong, says Rayner
The former deputy prime minister says changing visa rules for migrants already living in the UK would be "un-British".
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Again, speaks to the utter collapse of moral strength on the right in that as much as I dislike him, Farage would not have been this cavalier 5 years ago. The right's embrace of racial grievance and Labour's inability to respond without saying "legitimate concerns" has hollowed out our politics.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s just possible that the expert legal advice sought by the Conservatives to justify their plan to scrap the public sector equality duty might not be looking at the issue from a completely impartial viewpoint.
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Skylar MacDonald @skylar.lol · 08/06/2026
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this… 🌭
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Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Merz bleibt da auf Konfrontationskurs mit der AfD. Klare Einordnung: Sie wolle „Deutschland in die Zeit vor Adenauer zurückbringen“.
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Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It is a good thing that No.10 attacking Vance is the first and most read story on BBC News, but ultimately there is going to have to be more substantive action on foreign interference in our politics and national life, starting with money and social media. Govt has dithered.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I would believe that Bari wants to hire Rogan at CBS, but what on earth can they offer him? He makes twice as much money as the biggest hosts in cable just by repeatedly saying “that’s crazy” to guys who tell him that ancient aliens taught the Inca the art of weightlifting
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.
The court was told that Frost had previously received 25 convictions for 55 offences, including an offence against the person in 2001, four public disorder offences between 2006 and 2011, offences of failing to surrender in 1999 and 2008, possession of a bladed article in 2009 and threatening and abusive behaviour in 2010 and 2011.
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