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David Lambert

@davidlambert.bsky.social
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Entrepreneur, European, South Londoner, (tired) father of 3 boys, refugee from the other place

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/09/2026
FT Exclusive: Billions of dollars of Rosneft’s foreign earnings were funnelled through a Kremlin-backed money laundering network, putting the state oil group at the heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions and supply its war in Ukraine. ft.trib.al/eYbw0gW
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was clearly not an act of spontaneity. Dozens and dozens of men travelling down, all wearing black, all wearing masks is anything but a spontaneous protest. An infuriating response.
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A cheeky-looking Henry Hoover XL
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Reminds me of a story I heard 20 yrs ago. Michael O'Leary is at the urinals in a Dublin bar and a guy in the stall next to him starts ranting at him about a terrible experience he's just had on a Ryanair flight. MoL finishes, calmly zips himself up, turns and says 'Well you get what you pay for'
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Surely this is a massive red flag: an AI escapes it's constraints and launches a hack attack on multiple companies. At what point do we admit this technology is totally out of control? We need proper regulation, now! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies
The out-of-control AI found four logins which allowed it to access multiple unnamed online services.
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Mood after watching Eng vs Arg last night
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Father’s Day cartoon prints available from shop! Order before Sunday to have them delivered just in time: ellisrosen.com/collections/...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just noting that when Sarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer and a vigil held for her on Clapham Common, Farage urged people not to attack men or the police.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
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Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
eh, what the hell
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The Burnham-sceptic’s case for Andy Burnham
To the shock of my 2015 self, I’m rooting for the king of the north. Also this week: a way of visualising the ‘shape’ of a city; and some stations whose names write cheques they can’t
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Oh the delicious irony of foreigners stealing the jobs that used to be done by good old fashioned British racists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I interrupt your breakfast with news that Saiqa Ali, one of the two Green Party candidates in #Lambeth who was arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred and (apparently) suspended has been elected to the council.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Stagflation www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Chart from The Economist showing an increase in deer populations in Britain from 1995 to 2025
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Two local election candidates, for the Green Party in Lambeth, have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred. The legal threshold for that is quite high: the Guardian reports some of the content which may cross it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The Met said in a statement: “Police have arrested two women, aged 57 and 54, on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred online, an offence under section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986. They remain in police custody.

“The arrests follow an investigation launched after concerns were reported to police on Tuesday 21 April about antisemitic material that had been posted online.”

Ali’s Instagram account is set to private but screenshots indicated she had posted an image of an armed man wearing a headband of the banned Islamist group Hamas along with the slogan: “Resistance is freedom”.

Another screenshot indicated that Mairey had shared a post which included the text: “Ramming a synagogue isn’t antisemitism. It’s revenge.”
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Simon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Forgot to include the worst one: £25k job ~ £25k £40k job ~ £29k £60k job ~ £23k £80k job ~ £32k £99k job ~ £43k *£100k job ~ £26k* £115k job ~ £32k Obviously people would just stop at £99k. Almost designed to force people into 4-day workweek. If that was the aim, then genuis.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/04/2026
don't think I can read this without becoming homicidal :) but may be of interest to others:
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25
GB News headline:
GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s also very visible in weekly pay by age. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB... where look how relatively flat the age gradient was in 1997 relative to 2018
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Wow wow wow
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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live
Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Idk, I guess content moderation isn't so hard after all www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Meta pulls Facebook ads for social media addiction clients
The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Call me ill-informed, I was an English major but -- what is the light source here?
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New post just out: "Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals" Antisemitism is becoming mainstreamed on both left and right at an alarming rate. What can it teach us about the way radicalisation takes root? And can it be stopped? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
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Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals
What the rise in antisemitism teaches us about radicalisation
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
All of the major British Jewish communal organisations have condemned the Wireless Festival decision to have Kanye West headline in Finsbury Park this July. Wireless (and Pepsi, who are sponsoring) haven’t bothered to comment. www.jewishnews.co.uk/wireless-fes...
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Wireless Festival booking of racist rapper Kanye West ‘completely unacceptable’
Antisemitic musician, who has repeatedly expressed Neo-Nazi sentiments, announced as headline act for the Finsbury Park event in July
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot of a Times article covering McMurdock’s past.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I think if I was trying to stop people suggesting anti-zionism was linked to anti-semitism I wouldn't keep going "well like him or not the Nazi over here is making a good point"
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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I wonder if the BBC would put the word 'hostility' in inverted commas for any other kind of racism? Sir Michael Moritz wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews - BBC News share.google/V81DiqdNZ0uy...
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Sir Michael Moritz wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews
The billionaire says
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Say what you like about those curlers, but you can't deny they've got some stones
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
BBC Newsnight covers Reform's pledge to scrap Equality Act [as Braverman mentioned it today] "Whatever intention was of passing the EA" says Zia Yusuf, "it stops discrimination against some people in its current form, but actually industralises discrimination against others" A common misconception
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Wait what? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Well this is utterly depressing How London unwittingly killed housebuilding - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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How London unwittingly killed housebuilding
A perfect storm of policy and regulatory headwinds has slowed new construction to a trickle
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Saw the Ukrainian guy who got banned by the IOC described as a 'skeleton racer' now that is a sport I would pay to see
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wait, they killed Ed Davey, dumped his body in a Welsh forest and replaced him with a lookalike?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New cash reward for information in unsolved Conwy murder case
Police are appealing for information on the murder of a man whose remains were found in Clocaenog Forest.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/01/2026
In an amazing coup, Reform have a star defector, the self-described most popular politician in Britain! It's... hang on, have I got this right... Nadhim Zahawi? thecritic.co.uk/zaha...
In which Zahawi blames the problems of the country on everyone except himself. https://thecritic.co.uk/zahawi-can-anybody-take-this-seriously/
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Cheeky squirrel captured by the 8yo using his mum's phone earlier today. Absolutely love the expression on his (her?) face
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The comments are 50% sexy appliance brand puns, 50% people who are very pleased with their Miele 20 years since they bought it
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Introducing my new AI chatbot Fool of a Took
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Something nightmarishly disturbing about the look of this www.thetimes.com/article/6725...
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The octopus kebab — Camden’s fishy twist on the post-pub classic
At £15-£17.50 a plate, Pescobar’s unusual offering is far from a cheap late-night snack. Is it worth the trip to Camden Market?
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David Lambert @davidlambert.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If you abduct Liverpool's talismanic Egyptian striker, that's stolen Salah
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