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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did.
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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · 23h
Immediate thoughts on Andy Burnham's announcement today of a national commission on electoral reform. Doing this process well will be really important. theconversation.com/if-he-wants-...
theconversation.com
If he wants to secure legitimacy for electoral reform, Andy Burnham must stick to these rules
Involving both the public and all parties in shaping reforms on how they vote will be crucial.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The first thing you can do for me is chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest f*cking dustbin you can find. Because you’ve never won any of them fairly. You’ve done it all by cheating" Brian Clough first meeting with his Leeds squad, 1974
You lot may all be internationals, and have won all the domestic honours there are to win under Don Revie. But as far as I’m concerned, the first thing you can do for me is chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest f*cking dustbin you can find. Because you’ve never won any of them fairly. You’ve done it all by cheating.”
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This really looks terrific.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"It is so soul-sucking." The current state of software engineering:
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Court judgment on AI and legal documents - not hallucinations, but gibberish lnkd.in/p/e5fD2P6w
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AI slop decision | Jakob Plesner Mathiasen
New US decision on AI slop in court documents We have seen several cases where AI hallucinations have caused serious problems in court and arbitration proceedings. Attorneys citing non-existent cases...
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Danny Tommo’ and his men of fighting age seek their Passport to Piddington www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
"Piddington is about to be invaded by the very worst Britons this country has to offer
Stewart Lee on the hamlet that voted to secede from the UK"

Stylised green and orange image of sign reading ‘Principality of Piddington’, in a field
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As I have written many times the demise of the centre-right is the most important global political trend of our times.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Always enjoy it when @ldfreedman.bsky.social quotes Russian military bloggers panicking.
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure
Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Out of fear of President Donald Trump WaPo is describing a rational act of economic self defence as spite….
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/09/2026
Amazon only has 4 copies left. Bookshop is backordered. But never fear—more copies are on the way! THANK YOU all for making this happen. This is far beyond my wildest dreams. But it's not about me or my book. It's about how we save our future from dangerously insane AI-crypto fascists.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 15/09/2026
WATCH: Imagine a world in which democracy doesn't exist. Instead, the United States is broken up into a number states overseen by only a handful of technocrats calling the shots. It sounds like something out of a wild science fiction movie but @gilduran.com says its what tech bros want.
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‘The Nerd Reich’ Author Gil Duran Joins It's The Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath
Inside tech oligarchs’ plan to eat democracy and spit it out.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hearing about Matthew Rhys's historic double Emmy win while listening to his delightful NYT interview made me very happy for him. Incredibly charming, modest and Welsh. Link to audio and text versions: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/m...
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The Charming, Amusing, Surprisingly Low-Confidence Matthew Rhys
The “Widow’s Bay” star on his two Emmy nominations, his penchant for going dark and his wobbly self-esteem.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is not happy with last night's SCOTUS order, which I covered here: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s... Trump writes that his SCOTUS appointees "are merely a shell of their original selves," a continuation of his view that these are "his" justices. Alito and Thomas, however, are "legends both."
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Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting
"disaster," which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM. Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left "Dumocrats," on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so! The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars.
They didn't even state, "money paid does not have to be paid back," much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars. Likewise, the SupremeCourt's Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to "citizenship" in our Country. The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm! The Court's inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History. This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won't be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.
It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history. It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love! Thank you for your attention to
this very important matter. God bless the U.S.A. President
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hearing a lot of 'what can be done?' to stop mega donors buying British democracy So I asked a real expert- former Electoral Commissioner David Howarth - to explain how we can fix our broken system Would recommend reading his piece: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/stop-billi...
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Stop billionaires buying our politics
Ex-Electoral Commissioner David Howarth on Reform's £72m crypto donation, the loopholes that allow big money to buy our democracy – and three ways to close them
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Again, MAGA reflects every wing-nut, crank idea collected in the Republican idea bin since the Hoover Administration and stuffed into the closet by the Normies. You know why that happened: nobody should start a war with Iran, Operation *Wetback* was not how you handle farm labor and tariffs are bad.
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 13/09/2026
This fall, we’re cozying up with our favorite books on democracy. What are some of your recommendations? 📚
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026
NEW POLLING Tom Brufatto: With a new Prime Minister, determined to prioritise redistributive growth and to restore a sense of hope to the country, this research sets out the roadmap to the party’s recovery, and provides the political piece to complete the economic jigsaw smashed to bits by Brexit.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gavin Millar KC, the barrister who worked on the recent undercover investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising activities for Channel 4 News, has discussed party funding legislation on the Double Jeopardy podcast and said it needs to be strengthened. rozenberg.substack.com/p/impermissi...
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Impermissible donations
What can the law do to keep politicians — and reporters — within limits?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you need your faith in humanity restored … watch this video of sister Rose Patrice. She’s a Philadelphia nun who goes to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas to sit with children who have no one by their side. This is helping others because it’s the right thing to do.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026
Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.
Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On the narrow question of policing: although it's changed somewhat in recent years, the default British policing approach to protest (especially protest with risk of violence) is containment and surveillance, followed by subsequent arrest. However, there are some real problems in this case.
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Friends! I'm talking about my new book Betrayal with Alastair Campbell this evening at Kings Place in London. Tickets below if you would like to come, plus details of my other events this autumn. I'm speaking at literary festivals in Cambridge, Hay, and Oxford, among others linktr.ee/luke_harding
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Betrayal | Linktree
Trump, Putin and The New Age of Conquest - the new book from Luke Harding. Out Now.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
With the mass Dover blockade this week, it looks as though we here in the UK are finally at that point. Let's see where the next live demonstration of it will be. [5/5] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police slow to respond to Dover protest, says council boss
The "exceptionally well organised" protest "caught several agencies on the hoof", the leader says.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Care: The Cost of Petty Politics By @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Care: The Cost of Petty Politics
How has the most humane work in our society been devalued and allowed to deteriorate for so long? By James Bloodworth
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This sounds as inappropriate as anything I have ever heard in UK higher education. Perhaps we need to shut down Cambridge until we find out what the hell is going on there...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long
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Ben Gartside @bengartside.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Incredibly funny that Verbatim used this burner to get into Reform (from their long form doc on YouTube)
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"hey everyone - this is the undercover journalist who is helping us do those crimes I told you about"
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 03/09/2026
I don't think BBC News and Current Affairs are biased towards Reform. I just think they are so underfunded, badly managed and terrified that they have forgotten how to do their jobs.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wow. Watch Channel 4 News now Nigel Farage discussing elicit funding for reform U.K. from a foreign donor All on secret camera
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