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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 18h

How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center: another tale from Trumpland davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...

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“When I hear the word culture”...

How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charles Spencer's Diana book is out this week. Here's why I wish it wasn't. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/true-but-d...

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True but despicable

Earl Spencer and the Diana industry

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charles Spencer's Diana book is out this week. Here's why I wish it wasn't. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/true-but-d...

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True but despicable

Earl Spencer and the Diana industry

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The specious arguments that killed assisted dying: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-assist...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...

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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The specious arguments that killed assisted dying: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-assist...

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on the growing popularity of the crudest kind of racism on the right: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How ethnicity has replaced merit on the political Right. A free post. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/man-on-the...

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Man on the road

Why we have work to do

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How ethnicity has replaced merit on the political Right. A free post. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/man-on-the...

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Man on the road

Why we have work to do

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher. Why no one should be shocked. A magazine length feature davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-unreli...

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The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher

How we are shocked by something we should have expected

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher. Why no one should be shocked. A magazine length feature davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-unreli...

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The unreliable narrator and the trusting publisher

How we are shocked by something we should have expected

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Slavery Abolition Act of got Royal Assent on this day in 1833. It freed about 800,000 people. 45,000 slave owners (3000 in the UK) were paid compensation for human property: a total of £20 million in 1833 - about £3 billion by inflation (or much more 40% of Treasury income, or 5% of GDP in 1833)

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Ben Carter @bbcben.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yesterday was the last episode of the current run of Radio 4’s The Briefing Room. Only nine episodes but felt like we covered a lot. If you want to listen to @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social and guests talking about Iran, immigration, social care, Gen Z and lots more…listen on BBC Sounds now

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Feature length dive into how the British New Right created the new racist Right davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/letting-th...

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Letting the far right one in

How the New Right opened the door to the racist Right

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Feature length dive into how the British New Right created the new racist Right davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/letting-th...

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Letting the far right one in

How the New Right opened the door to the racist Right

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Want to give a shout-out to one of the BBC's most consistently excellent radio shows, @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social's "The Briefing Room". Today I caught up with a fab two-parter on immigration featuring @msumption.bsky.social, @bbcdomc.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social. Do give it a listen.

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BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, Part 1: How's the government doing on immigration?

David Aaronovitch and guests discuss small boats, asylum seekers and illegal migration.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some people want the Arday affair to be all about race and woke. Here is why it isn't... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...