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A big thing with nostalgia is that you conveniently disregard most of the things people like as seeming almost natural. Burnham isn't going to reverse airline deregulation, for example.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The whole thing is very interesting, but “Bibi, man, what the fuck are you doing? You think I’m Santa Claus? No Santa in Israel, pal", is a classic Biden quote. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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How Biden Averted a War With Iran

In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching the Two Towers with my daughters, and my daughter burst out laughing when Grima showed up. And then doubled up when she heard his name was "Grima Wormtongue".

The King and his most trusted adviser, a man who looks like he should have been arrested for being a sneaky bastard at birth.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Anyway, this has all the makings of a classic British scandal where something really bad happens, and we pretend the conditions weren't painfully obvious beforehand.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The problem is a lot of these people hate our country. They assume that it must be better on the continent because that’s their lazy, single transferable take on everything. That they inherited something precious they’ve let decline through neglect and faux savviness would never occur to them.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We should be very British about this new independent nation by invading it and claiming it for the Crown. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'We werent able to think strategically' says the chief of staff at a govt that, very strategically, spent 18 months attacking its core vote to chase voters who hated them

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I continue to believe that it will come to be seen as one of the dafter business decisions for Sony and Microsoft to carry on with their next set of consoles as planned as if the great spike in the cost of compute hadn't happened.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

nandy pulled off the scam of the year lol like imagine pleading for your job all ooh you don’t understand i was blocked from doing what i wanted to do and then going back to snoring in a hammock

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

don't ask me how. i'm not a policy guy. but every fash like Tommo out there is in it for the social media payouts. force companies to cut that off, and to demonitize any channel they appear on. they aren't gonna do this content for free.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/09/2026

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The last week has seen multiple incidents of masked mobs trying to subvert the power of the state. Their actions have been illegal and unpleasant. But the treatment has been weak. The police haven't dealt with it, and neither has govt. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

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Stop the Louts

The tools exist. The will, so far, doesn't.

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I do begin to wonder if this is Labour wildly course-correcting from Gordon Brown insulting a little old lady into "we must never be impolite to any racist ever" For god's sake.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Broke: Respect the Police Woke: Defund the Police Bespoke: Fund the Police, respect the internal investigations department that holds them in line

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Timeline and replies full of people confidently asserting Trump is committing a bribery offence. Actually, a politician promising to *all* voters a benefit on victory, *regardless* of how they vote, is not bribery. It is a staple of democratic politics.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ok, either the police in britain cannot police a credible threat of mass racial intimidation, in which case the home secretary needs firing, or the police in britain does not care about it, in which case the home secretary needs firing

Police were told the night before far-right agitators blocked roads into Dover that those involved had converged on a village 18 miles away and planned to use it as a launchpad, it has emerged.

People in Preston-next-Wingham told of how hundreds of men had started to arrive in the village of just over 920 residents on Friday afternoon and in effect “took over” the village.

At least one person is understood to have sought to pass on details to counter-terrorism police after people heard the far-right activists boasting in the local pub that they intended to go to Dover and “attack Muslims”.

The information was passed on to police but little or no interest was shown in the tipoff, according to the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, who spoke to the person. Others reported careless and illegal parking to the police but no action was said to have been taken.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

labour government quietly effective factoid actually just statistical error. average labour minister actually incredibly useless. Ed Millerbind, who lives in cave & actually does 10,000 things with power each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Worth recalling that the Cameron government privately warned Israel that it risked being treated as a pariah as far back as 2014 if it continued on its course re occupation and settlement. Miliband is not making Israel a pariah state, successive Netanyahu governments have done that

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If your business processes are not simple and consistent with clear governance, then the most efficient approach is internal staffing. Not because it is efficient in itself, but because networking and institutional knowledge are your only hope at stopping things becoming too inefficient.

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I cannot stress enough that a civil partnership is 61 quid.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is the thing, I am happy to accept that I am wet, lefty liberal on immigration compared to the voting public, I'm not really prepared to accept the same on the topic of black masked militia men blocking infrastructure!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Brexit and its aftershocks produced countless anxious articles, books, podcasts &c. about how the political class had become isolated from ordinary people - but has mostly tipped into the same level of patronising caricature that doesn't understand the public don't like things.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"They're attacking the RNLI. Protest is one thing, but once you attack the lifeboats, all bets off" is a simple message, but all the more powerful for that simplicity.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026

So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My Mum has been married to my Stepdad for 13 years, and part of that stability is that he keeps the TV remote nearby so he can pause it when my Mum starts going "oh, what's he been in, you know, that show with whatsername out of that other thing" which is constantly, as she loves Death in Paradise.

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another bad day for people who argue that studying the humanities is the path to more ethical tech

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Strap in for some great art and hot takes.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/09/2026

No, it's vitally important you keep an election pledge no one believed you'd keep, tinker with the edges that make people feel like you've broken it, do some unpopular cuts you back down one, and then have massive cuts in the last fiscal year before the election. That's how social democracy works.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s not really worth reading Graham Linehan’s whole piece, but I’m trying to imagine how you could quote this message from a friend and think it reflects poorly on him, not you

He deflected. "I'm sorry your wound is so deep that you can't find a way to heal and resume a more varied life," he wrote. "You can still be as GC as you like, but it will be a hell of a lot better for you and for everyone if you manage it." Not a word on whether I was right. Just a suggestion that the fact I was still saying it, after everything it had cost me, was the symptom that needed treating.

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Local people fail to fix wall in rural area, people rarely climb through the gap.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Many years ago, I wrote down this bit of a speech Obama gave to an audience in Silicon Valley. Because it absolutely NAILED the difference between government and business.

The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences then I think those suggestions are terrific.

That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked.

No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On the very day Sam published this, one of the most empathetic people of the last century died. And the response among every side of the political spectrum to her death suggests to me that empathy still has some miles left in it.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If this gdp acceleration doesn’t happen all these investors are getting carried out on stretchers even if AI is the most consequential invention of the 21st century.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"For as long as I can remember, I’ve wished innovation could happen faster. With AI, my feelings are more complicated." Fascinating and important essay by Bill Gates:

gatesnotes.com

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wasn't planning to betray I'm not the kind of man to stray But I won't be her second-rate Jolene She's got it bad, it's getting worse Somehow she's on her seventh verse My woman clearly wants to fuck Jolene

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still unbeaten. RIP

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Tom Clarke @deworde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Brilliant summation of the level of censorship, with I guess the top level unmentioned being "was actively unalived by government or nutcase"

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can call the proms what you like, but a classical music festival that quietly accommodates that guy, without making a huge deal about it, without charging him more than the price of a travel card, is my kind of classical music festival.

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What amazes me is a lot of this stuff we hear from both the media and from politicians on the right if it was said out loud at my place of work would see the start of a disciplinary process against them and yet it's reported by the beeb in particular like it's a perfectly normal way to behave.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"I dislike immigration from certain countries because they don’t agree with British liberalism, an ideology and mode of living that I am explicitly hostile towards”.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are now used to judgments and sentencing remarks listing a person’s ill-advised Google searches. We will soon see judgments and sentencing remarks listing a person’s ill-advised AI/LLM prompts. You may as well email the prompts directly to the police station.

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