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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just the sound of pneumonic plague makes me feel tyred

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does 'the UK's second city' mean?

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not sure that centralisation is the cause of this though. This is populism, and I reckon that politicians who want to say this kind of thing will do so whoever actually has responsbility for bus stop design. (After all, central government doesn't design bus stops now!)

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is very contingent on polling, surely, and seems less inevitable than the Salmond case? Voters then *knew* that the SNP would be strong in Scotland, and a hung parliament seemed very likely. In 2028 it seems pretty plausible to me that the Greens won't appear major players.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s not strange though is it. It’s our media.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/10/2026

Yep, this is bad. And aso looks like incompetence when the Tories have condemned Reform for doing the exact same thing.

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Hugo Gye @hugogye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ridiculous behaviour from the Tories. Dealing with unfriendly journalists is a basic requirement for a political party!

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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cannot think of one good reason they could have for doing this. Nor even a bad one. They should fix it.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard agree. I knew it would be my reaction before I even read it, but my main response was - never go to Ganesh for the economics. His editor should just keep reminding him to steer clear of that.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I share Ganesh's irritation with "Good Growth" but I find the rest of this rather facile, honestly. If your solution to the UK's sluggish growth is "Cut pensions, spend it on tax cuts" I do need you to articulate to me why we're not living through Jeremy Hunt's utopia. www.ft.com/content/3b92...

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At least Burnham doesn’t pretend to care about growth

Unlike his predecessors, Britain’s prime minister is a fairly honest stagnation-ist

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know, children, there was a time, not so long ago, when serious journalists - even right wing propagandists cosplaying objectivity - would applaud an experienced, even-tempered Foreign Secretary, like Hague or Hammond, being a bit dry, rather than jumping on stuff as if they were Perez Hilton.

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Tania Doney @taniadoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is your point that if this is true, we shouldn't say it?

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tbf he did include the word 'increasing' in his assertion. So assuming he's talking about rate of change, you need a time series of opinion polls to see if he's right.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kasia cramped in the sprint. And she worked a lot.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thing is, we would never talk about “swarms of cars, everywhere” when describing a city, would we? Motornormativity, in action.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Shout out to the Royal Sovereign. Go there if you can.)

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My local pub runs out of all kinds of core pub drinks on a regular basis. I think it’s because they exist pretty hand-to-mouth in terms of stocks. I still love it though.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing variation. Italy (and Spain) striking as large EU countries.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think the point is that you could substitute the word ‘people’ for the word ‘migration’ in your post.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You think those are goals of truckers, farmers and ranchers?

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I saw this. It sounds horrible. I hope she recovers well. The piece unfortunately conflates illegal e-motorbikes with legal e-bikes, which makes it hard to decipher what's happened

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What are the long-term goals you're thinking of?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026

I spend my week crossing london on a bike and increasingly that means cycling alongside Wayve/Waymo robotaxis. it’s uncomfortable. they give you so much space, don’t do a close pass while accelerating as lights go red. So unnerving if you cycle on assumption everyone’s mental and wants to kill you.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sorry, but the average UK take on this is also very much WTF. I suspect the only reason you're not seeing lots of that is that it's too obvious to even bother writing.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don’t know. You can over complicate these things. Much easier to just ask ‘is there a negative output gap?’ If the answer is no, you probably don’t want more expansionary fiscal policy.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can‘t listen to TH hamming it up at the start of episodes. Have to skip through that when it’s him, every single time. I always assume everyone else is doing the same.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm sad to learn today that Canadians use cups and spoons for cooking measurements. Can ditch that immediately, surely - Pareto improvement.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Presumably 'tongs' is French people trying to say "thongs"?

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Palmer we're seeing now would have been picked, but the Palmer we're seeing now does not bear much resemblance to the seemingly unfit and unfocused Palmer we saw last year. Those injuries really took their toll.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Fraser. Here are Cocteau Twins appearing as This Mortal Coil to perform Song to the Siren on Loose Talk in 1983

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Saw them at Norwich Arts Centre in 1992

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ha. No. I meant having to go and listen to one that I had written. ie 'you' in the general sense. Awful.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I always found having to go and listen to one you'd written the very worst of all. Excruciating and boring at the same time.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rory Stewart is one of the masters of pronouncing on issues on which he knows little, but with grand Etonian confidence.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

lol was just about to post this

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No. Plenty of GDP is imputed, for example. Includes estimates of public sector output. Lots of GDP isn’t taxed.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The point is / was for Gall to try and put others under pressure in his goal of coming second. There's just a separate race going on there, and fair enough.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No probs. I was indeed talking about MLE. More generally though, I think literally your job is to know this stuff! I do, though, suspect that the Tory MP we’re talking about probably is too online. But that’s about beliefs, not knowledge.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

(Not sure who was accusing you of being too online but it certainly wasn’t me)

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Eh? You didn’t even use the term did you?

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Right This whole debate is making me think some people are much too online Including some Tory MPs

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