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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chinggis Khan rocking a t-shirt saying I'M NOT THE STEPPE NOMAD I'M THE NOMAD WHO STEPPED UP

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seeing a lot of this, and firstly, I don’t think it’s necessarily true. The Liberal Democrats could well end up in government after the next election. Secondly, having a “serious vibe” matters. Saying the Growth Fairy will give you £17bn for tax cuts is not serious.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism

Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy.

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I recently interviewed a traveller from an antique land. Their experience in arid environments with sizable, defunct monumental sculpture (sans torso) stuck with me. While they didn't get the position, here's three key takeaways they taught me about the fleeting nature of earthly power 👇

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

when i see a fly in my apartment i tend to enter video game boss mode and start saying shit like, “insolent wretch, you dare enter my domain?”

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Something bleakly humorous about taking the coach from Oxford to Gatwick (i.e. terminus to terminus) twice in one day because of a cancelled flight

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Arday affair is disastrous and only made worse by how clearly avoidable it was. An absolute and total failure of any sort of ethical behaviour at every stage of the proceedings, entirely based around massaging the egos of senior figures at the university.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

at this point I really do see this type of sentiment as symptomatic of a much broader attitude very popular in online left of centre circles which prefers scapegoats to solidarity and rejects the idea of ever having to make any sort of communal sacrifice in favour of blaming someone else

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Having now watched Troy (2004) my verdict is that I can forgive killing Menelaus and Ajax too soon but I cannot forgive placing coins on the eyes of dead Greeks half a millennium before coins are invented

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

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Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nolan really missed a trick with The Odyssey by not having a post-credits scene setting up an Aeneid tie-in

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Andy Burnham: I think I misspoke when I said "No factionalism." What I meant was, "No, factionalism."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I genuinely cannot understand how the Labour government has now had two, genuinely cultured prime ministers who both looked at Lisa Nandy’s record there and went “I’m pleased with this. I want this to continue.”

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/07/2026

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ending rough sleeping! Yes! New Labour did it, absolutely no reason we can't do it again

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Raise the Colours, an organisation which has had one of its founders charged with murder, has been heavily implicated in a hit and run (currently under investigation), and another "leading light" faces trial for 22 indecent images charges.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

tfw its not coming home

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks CityMapper, son's crying now, cheers

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/07/2026

[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This illustrates a really seismic shift in UK politics: that much of the British Right now talks, thinks & argues in the same online space as the American Right. That's pulling it to a politics of faith, flags & firearms with little in common with traditional 'Toryism' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'

Rupert Lowe criticised the ban of handguns in the UK, saying it was "because there was a murder in Dunblane".

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the thing you have to realize is that it's basically taken for granted by media elites that the core vote of the centre-left can never be taken to be viewed as the legitimate expression of the people's will

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In his time in office Starmer has overseen the largest rollback of migrants, trans and disabled rights in arguably a generation. He has gone further than the previous Conservative government on hostile policies and the demonisation and discrimination of marginalised groups.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ultimately, British politics is simple in a way: people don't like the Cameron deal: they don't get as much state as they used to and although they have had substantial tax relief, they don't feel it. Either need to have huuuge cuts in spending and more tax cuts Or raise taxes and spending.

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Really pleased to have written this piece in the latest edition of Renewal! As a proud Bristolian, I have often been less proud of how its politics play out. Looking jealously at Manchesterism, I took a deep (& opinionated) dive into the (non)workings of devolution in the West of England…

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Love to be receiving emails from faculty and colleges advising me to avoid the city centre tomorrow because the Oxford Union has insisted on pressing ahead with its precious debate that they've invited Tommy Robinson to

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Elon egging on migrant’s houses being burned down while his dad has a drink with Tommy Robinson in Moscow hotel bar talking about how Russia is the UK’s ally, at this point I don’t think you can deny that social media has been a net boon both to authoritarian regimes & authoritarians in democracies.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wes' theory seems to be that if you wield the knife then you get seen as a traitor and can't win, but walk around waving a big knife with 'backstabbing knife' written all over it going "hey, I'm not using it YET" you'll be a contender. What??

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

👇British politics has near-completely lost not just the art, but seemingly any expectation that the job of “being a politician” involves persuasion.

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Quite apart from anything I really do find the "give Reform a chance" thing you often hear particularly enraging — this isn't a parish tombola, it's potentially five years of nationwide immiseration!

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Subsidising energy consumption in the face of both a short-term supply shock and the long-term need to decarbonise. Bad for the economy, bad for the planet, bad for the world's poor. And *if* you favour a wealth tax (I am sceptical but there's a case) spending it on *this" is just idiotic.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I used to think thw German Greens transitioning Germany away from nuclear and renewables and back toward coal was the most anti-green Green Party policy I'd see in Europe, but subsidising fossil fuel usage during the best transition opportunity of our lifetimes gives it a run for its money

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Most "we should have fewer universities" takes from right wing columnists should be read as "we should set off a nuclear bomb under our whole method of training skilled workers to assuage my status anxiety because I work in a dieing industry"

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Prime Minister doesn't understand his job. The Chancellor has given up. The Home Secretary has radicalised herself. There isn't a foreign secretary. A government on autopilot into oblivion.

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Finn Conway @finnconway.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This was always my biggest issue when I was an active Lib Dem — the transformation of an electorally successful strategy under FPTP into an ideological commitment that often made substantively liberal policy/values secondary to "localism" (ie parochial cowardice)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The nub of so many of this government’s problems is that there is a Keir Starmer where the prime minister should be.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Oxfam Bookshop on St Giles’, Britain’s first, has earned a reprieve. Oxford City Council has refused permission for landlords Regent’s Park College to turn it into a graduate common room, pointing out that the Local Plan prioritises retail, entertainment, and office uses in the city centre.

Oxfam Bookshop on St Giles (Google Street View)

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
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The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

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