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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 16h

I also note that most UK tax evasion is carried out by small businesses (although admittedly our lax approach to cybercrime means that a subset of them may now be becoming big businesses.)

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 21h

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Good to finally see a politician of principle 🙄

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they just do not seem like they have internalized or operationalized basic principles of good corporate citizenship yet

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Going to make a story where around chapter 10 everyone goes “wait - are the Orcs just Welsh?”

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fact an MP openly supporting terrorism is seen as a non story tells you how desperate they are for the far right to win

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The really worrying bit is that they don't have a definite date for the 2027 spending review yet. I could see the argument for a tiding things over budget if you knew the big decisions were in the spending review and were already working on it, but this is just procrastination.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite appearances, the Conservative Party is not a cult. Cults are good at recruiting new members.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"A149: Strengthening Solidarity with Ukraine" was ranked 52nd of 58 in the prioritisation ballot of members, and the defence review 43rd. The motion opposing sanctions on Iran and the IRGC is 11th

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think SV is going to happen, but Labour shouldn't just avoid it because it's a bad system but because there are two viable parties on the right and three on the left. (I'm assuming Restore won't stand a full slate and there's a decent shot they'll disintegrate before 2029.)

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everybody is mocking this because they assume it refers to character deaths, but actually they just had a really dismissive attitude to stuntman safety and didn't bother cutting it out in the edit suite.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/10/2026

this is somehow going to end with the Houthis conquering Jeddah and I for one am here for it

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I want to go into this in more detail at some point, but yeah I think its notable that £17bn tax cut has annoyed pretty much everyone in the LDs regardless of background. IMO Davey's issue isn't even so much being seen as 'right wing', it's that the scattershot policy announcements feel unserious.

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Rt Hon Peter Mannion MP @baldzera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My "we expect no physical violence" shirt has people asking questions about my political conference that are already answered by my shirt

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think allosexuals should fuck a couch. I think when they do it they're reinforcing impending doom.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I also think it's very telling that when anyone suggests tweaks to the triple-lock or the winter fuel allowance or whatever, it prompts a backlash of GENERATIONAL WARFARE WHY DO THEY HATE OLD PEOPLE. And then stuff like this that is literally pitting generations against each other... crickets

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A challenge for the reader: devise a cross-party commission that the present iteration of the Tories would participate in.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Christ, how terrible is the advice now? Surely this is an obvious case where a half-decent LLM ought to able to predict the Economist line on any given issue.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's an interesting play less because there's any chance of cross-party agreement (neither Reform nor the Tories are going to do anything but oppose) but because engaging the LDs and possibly Greens like this may have an impact on how cohesively progressive bloc voters vote.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My fear is we may ultimately all go mad watching British politics contort itself into a pretzel to avoid a couple of pence on the basic rate of income tax.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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David Bent @davidbent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"As an...economic historian...I know that “anything that can be mass-produced will fall in price dramatically when it is mass produced”....And yet I forgot it." @timleunig.bsky.social on battery prices & path to Net Zero. So. Many. People. Make. This. Mistake. timleunig.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong

timleunig.substack.com

I was wrong

And what I learned from it.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

It is genuinely quite weird seeing Unite pick up the political agenda of the Lib Dem Orange Book authors. As a policy agenda, it's much closer to Thatcherism than a traditional social democratic agenda, let alone democratic socialism.

A Unite TV monitor calls for “fair tax thresholds” for higher rate UK taxpayers, saying it should be set at £66,000 instead of £50,270

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’m hoping for 72 virgins” “You’ve not been dogging round here before have you”

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fact that the Fairford arrest have got bail doesn't necessarily mean that they weren't involved in terrorism, I'd think - it merely suggests that they didn't realise they were.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm assuming their satnav just managed to confuse RAF Fairford with Portadown.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We took the greyhounds to a Great Global Greyhound Walk at Antrim today.

Three black greyhounds milling around a woman

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, Bluesky threading, never change.

A conversation moving from ABBA to the intersection of religion and ethnic identity.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did they just not notice how close they got? Can these people feed themselves without instructions from their DS?

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can really tell who was too good as a junior to have to learn racecraft. Also, why are the US team wearing the trans pride flag? I'm not complaining, but I'm surprised Simmons isn't.

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Bob Melling @bobmelling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by a fucking idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing about this is that as far as I can tell, there aren't actually any LTNs on the route between Putney and Westminster so they really can't have an impact on his cab journeys.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wondering if the Nationalist gambit here is just to keep blocking the road long enough for Jamie Bryson to stick his oar in and do something so inflammatory that the Unionists unavoidably look like the bad guys to all observers. There are certainly worse strategies.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching the BBC live feed of Drumcree and half the audio is protestors talking to each other about whether they have waterproof trousers.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Danny Tommo, Amodei, Man City fair play Piddington, Macklemore, Dolly ain’t alive no more Netanyahu’s iron dome, Meg and Harry coming home New cat, Clavicular COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR 🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Businesses operating without websites is already a big trend - so many places that used to have their own website which you can now only get information about via Facebook.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Arguably a big difference is that the likes of Milburn have thought through their positions, and thus aren't immune to arguments for compassion or imperfections. Whereas if haven't thought through you just take the posturing hardline surface. A cargo cult where don't know *why* want to be tough.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In retrospect, it was probably a bad strategy to have a Director of Strategy who has no knowledge of policy and who hates what the Labour Party has traditionally stood for.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A setting that I'm surprised fantasy doesn't strip mine for ideas more often is the late Roman barbaricum. Warlike societies with multiple power centres and ethnic identities; in the social and economic orbit of a troubled empire which they often fight for but have a complicated relationship with.

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illimij @illimij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a student handwrite "Autobahn Bismarck" as part of an answer on a test. I wanted to give extra credit, but restrained myself.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't remember where I've seen it. Public health/epidemiology research presentation. Was supposed to be "Rate of STDs in men who have sex with men"-instead it said "in men who have sex with me". Then: "A random sample of 500 participants took part in the study".

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's....not a balaclava is it?

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"There's something bothering me about this place. I know! This lesbian bar doesn't have a Central Committee! Enjoy your Revisionism, ladies!"

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have one very basic question about the lesbian bar story that I haven't seen discussed anywhere: how can you drink through an N95? You can't exactly stick a straw under it and even if you did it'd take away the point. Is that why it wasn't making any money?

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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