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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Overton window has dragged us all to a place where Cleverly is seen as the liberal side of the Tory party, when he was a hardline Brexiter and a Johnson-to-the-bitter-end-fan who enjoyed posting his many little ‘banning’ memes on immigration.
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Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.
This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration

BANNING
OVERSEAS CARE WORKERS FROM BRINGING DEPENDANTS

OUR PRIORITIES

STOP THE BOATS
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s all Thatcher’s fault. Really.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Confirmed! bsky.app/profile/sust...
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"verify your age" Sharing a landline with the neighbours.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a really horrifice article in so many ways. It smells of neo-colonialism and a frankly arrogant and exceptionalist attitude towards Europe and towards Spain in particular. Let's count some of the ways. (warning: may contain unparliamentary language) A 🧵
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And obviously this means there needs to be total surveillance of all activities by everyone…
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Like clockwork
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Careful what you wish for.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 16/05/2026
If the council didn’t have all of that money, I’d be interested to help, but I haven’t been asked. The campaigners say it can be done for £100,000 in time for this summer, which I think is the most important thing. stroudtimes.com/making-a-spl...
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Making a splash: Dale Vince offers to dive in to help save Stratford Park outdoor pool | Stroud Times
Dale Vince has offered to splash the cash to help save Stroud's much-loved outdoor pool.
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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Here are two incredibly powerful very short videos from Save the Children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-... And the follow up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKDg...
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Most Shocking Second a Day Video
YouTube video by SaveTheChildren
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/05/2026
I don’t know whether Ukraine will try to attack the Moscow parade today. But that after more than 4 years of the Russian war against Ukraine the Russian president is afraid of attacks against Moscow is a victory for Ukraine.
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Stupid and greedy
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into." 🎯
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Trump thinks he's cunning. But he showed me he lacks the brain for this job
The US President can’t process the consequences of his own ignorance. The world needs to stop fooling itself that he will ever change
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/04/2026
Ecotricity did it - after four years of campaigning to reform our energy market by ‘breaking the link’ - our government just announced it will. Our bills will be lower, so will inflation and bank lending rates, our economy bigger and stronger.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Say what, again.
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Not just US cars, the Audi Q series dont fit in parking spaces anymore
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/04/2026
Really hope we are!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The UK could do this too. We should.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Prime Minister of Sweden: "The conclusion for me is quite obvious: We must make Sweden completely nationally independent of gas prices! We must manage our own fossil-free electricity production—both for today's needs and for tomorrow's electrification of cars, trucks, and industries."
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Whatever your politics, whatever else you think of him, Trump is just so transparently an awful, dreadful person
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/03/2026
Ratcliffe is incoherent - all of the oil and gas we produce here in Britain is sold at the global market price. No amount of oil produced here can in that case save us a single penny. Importing fossil fuels does not mean we pay more. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social They dont have to come back to the UK James, they could go anywhere
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
They store mothballs in the mines? No wonder they have got expensive
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Like a lot of people here, I’d love to see our current government do more to tackle poverty, reduce inequality and protect the most vulnerable in our society. That’s the true mark of civilisation, to my mind. But I still don’t believe they’re “just like the Tories”.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it? youtu.be/CltToHhkhfQ?...
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If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Aah the short necked variety, you only see those in winter!
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Wow, every day is a school day
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Has something changed here, the font size it chooses on my phone is tiny! I'm now forever 'stretching 'and moving around the screen
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Coins? What are they?
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
snap!
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is the second in a series of posts I am writing on how to think about economics using some of the ideas in quantum physics, seeking parallels to aid understanding. Links to the foundation articles are in the post. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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Quantum economics, part 2: Money as Particle and Flow
This post continues the story of quantum economics, which began here. That post provides important background information on how this series developed and was drafted. There is a summary of posts to d...
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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/08/2025
I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
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Gary @garyduffynl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
You have to match socks?
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Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/08/2025
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Got to be. Surely !!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
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