Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 99268126332
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Hands up if you just knew Polanksi was going to wade in on this one and stick up for the guy jailed for a prolonged campaign of antisemitic harassment against a Jewish MP 910428
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The seaside town of Getaria is gorgeous, highly recommend a visit. 000
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Not sure if this is one of my most rightwing or my most leftwing takes, but if you believe there is such a thing as “excessive profits” in a sector you really should just go ahead and insource the service you’re paying for:thetimes.comSocial care providers may face caps on ‘excessive’ profitsSteve Reed, the local government secretary, says he will crack down on ‘unreasonable cost escalation’ 3942857
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/05/2026Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority. 27878175
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...thetimes.comI’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boysThe government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work 45722164
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this! 5536345
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand. 47782159
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that. 708201155777
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The best bit is about how she experiences a life where she has a child and happily chooses to leave it behind 120
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/08/2025Rachel Reeves: You know you’d be personally richer and the economy would be better and you wouldn’t have to fix strangers’ boilers if you just put any savings you have in a stock tracker rather than buy to lets. Everyone in the UK with any money: all my life I have dreamed of being a landlord. 719928
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Probably my favourite ever travel photo. At the Haghpat Monastery in Armenia. 140
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025See also, people who lament specialist shops closing down like Mothercare, but who would decide what they wanted in the shop then buy for a tenner cheaper online. 010
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Isn’t football so much better than men’s football? 062748
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 27/07/2025@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social @mike-reader.bsky.social please, please do something. 000
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The problem is that doom can become self-fulfilling. Public perception about the country is increasingly disconnected from how they feel about their own lives. So I look at how government can boost confidence, while acknowledging the real challenges that exist. 913316
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialJon @jonw67.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Ten years ago today, we met these two for the first time... and they've brought us such joy since. ##mainecoons 031
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 23/05/2025You haven’t seen road safety adverts until you’ve seen Irish road safety adverts I’m still traumatised by some of these from 30 years ago 2215
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/05/2025I guess it would be too much for them to ask whether it would improve the country rather than whether it will win votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLabour to unveil big immigration plans next week - but will they win back votes?Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to release her White Paper called 891355320
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025They’re making sure to get the Vatican national anthem some spins here because they know there’s no way any of the Cardinals are winning the 110m hurdles at the Olympics 818718
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Yes this is completely wrong. Every bit of quant and qual shows people are far more worried about small boats than legal migration for work/study. 2023451
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47 413273836604
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Local school only offers it from 810 to 840, and has excluded reception children. Breakfast is toast or cereal. Parents who need it for work are still paying for the regular 730 club whilst the other parents have moved their school drop off time to half an hour earlier. Very few actually benefit. 030
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media. Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes. 10544195
ecroi.bsky.social @ecroi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I just don't get what they're doing. I didn't vote the Tories out for Labour to do this sort of sh*t. 210
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 31/01/2025As part of my ongoing rant entitled "Britons would rather become a lossmaking slum landlord than invest their savings on the stock market", I've decided that the government needs to demand Homes Under The Hammer is taken off air for the good of the nation as part of the BBC licence fee negotiations. 2029542
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The best part of the Traitors tonight was when viewers thought for a minute that the actual BBC had buried someone alive underground in a coffin 3074041
Reposted by @ecroi.bsky.socialDebbons @debbons.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Jesus, I expect Kas is relieved to get away from that lot #TheTraitors 031
