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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the various Sunday morning substitutes for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social, Bobby Friction is the only one to keep me listening. Great stuff, and I shall certainly be following up The Excise Department...

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI artslop is definitely evolving. The giveaways used to be weird or additional body parts. Now it's that focus thing, where the whole image is in impossible focus, unconstrained by any depth of field.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okaay. It wasn't that long ago that I read that America had ordered more chips than it had datacentres to put them in (or energy to power them). Supply and demand leading and lagging, nothing unusual here, as you were.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

See also NYC. And even London and Paris.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a a GWR train to Cornwall. No buffet. Trolley service unable to get through due to baggage in the aisles. The luggage racks are way too small and ppl have forgotten about the overhead racks. Gagging for a cuppa.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026

This feels like something we should be asking right wing politicians about, but I appreciate the media is busy demanding every leader on the left individually parse and disavow each chant overheard at a uni protest.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s extraordinary how much the world worried about the ethics of genetic advances like cloning & how little is done about the ethics of genAI now. Look at our institutions- a persistent wildly enthusiastic uncritical call for AI adoption in everything. Where is the call for ethical scrutiny first?

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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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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now even Doctors Without Borders is in the firing line. Why? MSF witnesses Gaza & refuses to stay silent. They say Israel devastated Gaza’s healthcare system, call it genocide & demand the UK end its support. Ban the press. Smear the witnesses. Then call the darkness “no evidence.”

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The more I look at the proposed tourist tax, and having read the excellent Tax Policy Associates paper on the subject, the more I think it is a mistake to make it an ad valorem tax. It is sheer tourist numbers that are the issue. A flat per capita per noctem tax would be much better.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich

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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In my day, we had work experience too. It was called work. Christmas post, barmaid, admin. My impression was that students do this even more now than back in the dark ages.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Legitimate concerns is an acceptable indie band name to appear second on the bill at the Dublin Castle in 1996. It is not a licence for some pretty horrific racism or cheering the potential drowning of others.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While this is entirely too much, it is almost certainly a smaller fraction of the budget than in defence procurement in all western countries.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some really interesting stuff in this analysis of the AfD's performance in Saxony-Anhalt. Particularly interested that the AfD performed best in areas where populations are shrinking - *em*igration is frequently overlooked as an explanation of radical right voting

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hard to disagree with this point. But there's one major difficulty, which has been top of the PM's 'hard' pile since he took over - and much in the news, to boot. You wonder if this might have been a factor in Tommo's calculations?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know who it was in Brown's No10 operation in 2010 who came up with the phrase 'legitimate concerns' but whoever it was should not be sleeping easy at night.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dear UK 🇬🇧 government. It’s ok , your vote isn’t going to collapse if you name & shame fascists & racists . It may well increase . Your silence in not standing up to bullies makes it look as if you’re standing with them . Their expression more brutal but you’re playing for the same team 💔

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That Channel 4 video is very obviously fake news. For a start, it claims to show Nigel Farage actually in Clacton.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Railway ticketing websites/apps are universally among worst, most stress-inducing ones. But among railway ticketing websites/apps, UK train operating companies' websites are in a league of their own for crapness. Yes GWR I am particularly looking at you today.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh dear. So, despite Farage insisting they’ve done nothing wrong, the lovely Dan Jukes and James Orr have both stepped down… for now. Farage… they reported to you.. off you go. What a shitshow of guilty, corrupt, traitorous, greedy pisstakers. They must never ever get their hands on power.

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Given the sort of attention devoted to accusations of plagiarism one assumes that some people will be very exorcised about another Cambridge academic appearing to be involved in *actual crime*

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amongst other things this reveals the dishonesty of the pretence that hostility to immigrants is based on a concern about 'integration'.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Treat drugs as a public health, rather than criminal, challenge. 1. raise tax revenue from selling them. 2. remove the primary basis of the criminal economy. 3. free up a big chunk of prison space. Politically tricky, but -- done right -- could really improve things. bsky.app/profile/jess...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cofnas and Balogun will make a great pub quiz answer in a decade and a half

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wearing @postguild.bsky.social red today. I was able to challenge my @washingtonpost.com firing — and win reinstatement plus back pay — all thanks to being a part of the @wbng.org Guild. Binding Arbitration is a part of our contract. This is why unions matter!!!

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Many years ago I was crew on the Glenachulish when she was at Ballachulish. She's the last surviving turntable ferry, now working the oldest crossing to Skye under a CIC. But threatened by an absentee laird being a shitbag. Pls sign this! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!

This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes, councils built 130,000 houses pa in the 70s, but they had their own construction workforce, architects, planners, lawyers etc. Thatcher destroyed all of this and it has never been replenished.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A sign of the changing times is that old people's musical tastes are now much more Hawkwind than Vera Lynn

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lots of trees looking prematurely autumnal and brown. Seem to be predominantly field maple. They go bright yellow, not brown, in autumn. Not good.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just wondering how long they'll be able to keep it up before JKR hears of it and deploys her billions...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My gut feeling is that the defining global economic issue in the second half of the century will be demand for labour, because demographics and despite everything the techbros will get up to in the second quarter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Also, invited is Michael Gove who said the IDF deserve the Nobel Peace Prize , edits ‘ The Spectator ‘ which led the public lynching of Prof Arday & got away with giving gov Covid contracts worth billions to his mates . But Gove’s honesty & ethics aren’t on trial , he gets to sit on the jury .

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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