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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/01/2026

Thank you Mr President, that clears things up.

Six-panel meme from The Simpsons. In the first panel, Superintendent Chalmers points at Principal Skinner and says, “GOOD LORD, WHAT ARE YOU NEGOTIATING IN THERE?” Second panel: Skinner replies, “GREENLAND FRAMEWORK.” Third panel: Chalmers says, “A PERMANENT FRAMEWORK ON GREENLAND? IN AN HOUR? WITH THE HEAD OF NATO? WITHOUT DENMARK?” Fourth panel: close-up of Skinner saying “YES.” Fifth panel: Chalmers asks, “WELL CAN I SEE IT?” Sixth panel: Skinner, half-lit by a red glow, replies, “NO.”

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I sometimes feel like I am going mad. Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Say what you like about Rachel Reeves, she has done wonderful things for tenants' rights awareness

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It was Helen Lewis: 'nutpicking'.

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

IIRC @stephenkb.bsky.social gave a snappy name to the act of mining for the most idiotic takes you can find - what was it? Because it's in overdrive today.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 09/09/2025

As @duncanstott.bsky.social points out in The Other Place, West Oxfordshire District Council declared a Climate Change and Ecological Emergency in 2019.

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Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Had not expected to have to verify my age to send a message about rail subsidies on Bluesky! The camera took one look at me and decided immediately I was over 18...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/07/2025

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions. But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Lol.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/07/2025

"This is what we believe"

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Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"It noted a surge in withdrawal charges, with almost double the amount of people making an unauthorised withdrawal (99,650) compared to the number of people who used their LISA to buy a home (56,900) in 2023-24" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lifetime ISAs leave some with less money than they put in, MPs warn

MPs call for reform to the savings account which aims to help people save towards retirement or a first home.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Will be interesting to see if certain media outlets just ignore the report from the Spanish government confirming the key role of thermal power plants in the Iberian power outage or still try to erroneously spin it as a failure of renewables. www.businessgreen.com/news/4515109...

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'Solar PV was not the cause of the blackout': Report on Spain's power outage reveals failure of thermal plants a key factor

Renewable energy advocates accuse commentators who blamed renewables for black out of 'jumping the gun and oversimplifying the cause'

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:

[Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]

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STOCK CUBE:
Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf.
My colleague from the spice rack.

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BROCCOLI:
Hi Bay Leaf

BAY LEAF:
Yuh yuh hi

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CARROTS:
You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf?

BAY LEAF:
Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage.

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CARROTS:
Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then?

BAY LEAF:
Eaten! Haha

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BAY LEAF:
Not allowed mate.

I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*...

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BAY LEAF:
Just here for the flavour hit.
Special forces, y’know.
That’s why there’s just one of me.

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BAY LEAF:
Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf…

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BAY LEAF:
You might wanna stand back actually.
This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy...

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[Silent pause]

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CARROTS:
Are you doing something

BAY LEAF:
Sure am mate.

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BAY LEAF:
Suuuuure am.

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BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]:
You need training to perceive it.

CARROTS:
OK

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fab local reporting. Oxford should be getting congestion charging as soon as this autumn! 💪

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The question remains .. if they're not guarding town centres what ARE the police actually doing these days?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

How long before the Tory defections start? Braverman will surely be a Reform MP before too long.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Bad housing is devastating for our mental health. New ONS data finds people with moderate to severe symptoms of depression are about 3x more likely to be worrying about their housing/living conditions than those with no or mild symptoms www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Paul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Since 2014, the average time to determine an outline application for more than 10 homes has tripled from around 250 days to about 750. Over the same period, the number of applications submitted has declined sharply.

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Can't disagree with a word of this

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

More voters now view Labour unfavourably than ever did under Corbyn - two thirds - with barely a quarter favourable. A quarter of the electorate on your side isn’t enough to win even with fragmentation and a big electoral system assist bsky.app/profile/youg...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New data out today from the English Housing Survey on Experiences of the 'housing crisis. Shows a particularly sharp rise in costs for low-income private renters, who are now spending 63% of their income on rent. A few other highlights 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

'We're economically stagnant and that's how we like it.'

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Alice Rizzardo @alicerizzardo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here is a cool map about land use in the UK, and the agricultural land abroad used to feed the UK. Note the huge amount of land we use for beef and lamb pastures. Altogether, the amount of land used to rear these animals + grow their food is slightly bigger than the area of the UK itself.

A map of the UK, subdivided into imaginary regions of size corresponding to the actual amount of land in the UK dedicated to various purposes (such as "Beef and lamb pastures, "Cereals", "Built up"). Additional hexagons to the side indicate the amount of overseas land also used to feed the UK.

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So much of London's green belt is near the public transport network, doing very little for nature, and could be providing much needed homes. It's fantastic news that the Mayor is taking steps to get building on that land - bravo!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/04/2025

Eleven days ago.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

British institutions came through too, despite some intense and sustained pressure. Just been reading the bit of Tim Shipman's latest where Johnson and Cummings try to get Cabinet colleagues & Civil Service to break law, and they are all, immediately: "Nope. Not doing that. Do that & you're toast."

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We should remember that (a) in the US people like this went from “fringe crazies LOL” to running the country in a decade and (b) this kind of thing is already rife in Reform (c) Reform are already leading in some polls

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Not often I agree with David Olusoga, but he is spot on in this paragraph. (The rest of the article is pretty interesting too). www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/podcas...

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 19/03/2025

British Library confirms £1.1 billion expansion will go ahead -- with space for Crossrail 2 www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bri... A £1.1 billion extension to the British Library, including space for Crossrail 2, is to go ahead now that the library has signed construction contracts.

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British Library confirms £1.1 billion expansion will go ahead -- with space for Crossrail 2

A £1.1 billion extension to the British Library, including space for Crossrail 2, is to go ahead now that the library has signed construction contracts.

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Everyone: Trump destroying the university sector is a massive opportunity for the UK to drive growth in high value sectors and pull in some amazing researchers! The Treasury:

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz: "The circumstances are determined above all by Putin's war of aggression against Europe. It is a war against Europe and not just a war against the territorial integrity of Ukraine⤵️

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Alicia @agbutteriss.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ngl, I was never a particularly big fan of the sugar tax, but things like "slushies are now actively dangerous to small children" seem like a pretty big negative unintended consequence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Children should avoid drinking slushies with glycerol, says study

Paediatricians studied 21 children in the UK and Ireland who became very ill after the icy drinks.

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Much-needed new homes 🤝 upgraded cycle infrastructure

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Magregale @magregale.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

quite: __________________ The single best testing ad by the Kamala Harris campaign was one where she looked directly into the camera and said something like, “I know the cost of living is too high, and I’m going to fix that by building more housing and taking on landlords who are charging too much.”

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Is there some grim case study of a housing development that was occupied and caused a sewage disaster? Because this seems to be a particularly common planning problem in the UK. It's been affecting the North East of England and Northern Ireland as well as Oxford and Cambridge.

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The people we must turn to for expertise on charity administrative regulations is *checks notes* the melodic pop-rock band Coldplay.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"I was eating Cheerios and then bye bye tooth" - my son, to government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

My 6yo son's finished form, including a description of the tooth loss - "I was eating Cheerios and then bye bye tooth" - a drawing of said incident, and a wildly generous claim that his tooth was white rather than a slightly yellower shade.

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you want to stop a planning application, find the nearest "local heritage asset" or conservation area and say that the development will "impact the setting" of the asset. *Any* impact on *any* "heritage asset", including even just its setting, has been ruled illegal by the courts

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My favourite film genres 5. Obscure unbelievable true story 4. It's society as we know it, but for this one weird technology 3. Infinitely grittier Batman 2. Ey it's tough oop north but the'll never break us spirit 1. "Abraham Lincoln, bring your space chair right back here!"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

No greater betrayal of your humanity than this. Handing over the independence of your mind to a leader. Turning yourself into their slave.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/03/2025

Californians will be like "we need to protect this neighborhood's character forever by stopping overdevelopment" and the neighborhood looks like this

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"In a world without US security guarantees, all other priorities must give way to defence" is a far-reaching headline. But the paragraph that this feels like the early weeks of Covid, where it was clear but not yet understood an all consuming crisis was coming, resonated particuarly strongly.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Starmer is between a rock and a hard place here. If there is a 5% chance the US will continue to support the North Atlantic Alliance, as it has essentially since Pearl Harbour, that is what he must pursue until it has definitively gone. But the public also need to know it has probably gone.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Republican support for same-sex marriage down 31pts, from 55% to 24%, in four years according to new poll from YouGov. Yikes.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The lack of clarity in the requirements, coupled with nobody willing to confirm in advance what's required has led to 40% of applications being refused. www.housingtoday.co.uk/in-focus/wha...

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What the delays at the Building Safety Regulator mean for high-rise development

The new system of gateway checks on high rise buildings is adding anything up to 18 months to construction programmes. Joey Gardiner finds out why

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