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Genial Jim

@genialjim.bsky.social
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Not that Jim O’Neill but I’m interested in Economics, though that’s not what the Andrew pays me for.

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Simon Dux @simondux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reuters did it better.
Trump flinching as jet passes overhead
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Denmark newsgroup has background music on waiting for Trump that had the lyrics "send in the clowns" The camera then finds Marco Rubio and zooms in with song going "clowns already here" P.S new agreement on Greenland is a massive Danish negotiation victory
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Anja Laechner @anjalaechner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That is such a disgusting act of discrimination
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why the fuck is Donald Trump building a triumphal arch when he's had no triumphs?
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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Triumphal arch will be military complex with drones and snipers". Uh.... huh..... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
5 years in Northwood; how it started, how it ended.
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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is astonishing that he's not asked every day why he had a budget that was designed to do nothing more than make it as hard as possible for an incoming Labour Government What about what is best for the country?
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The single most effective argument against Mosley’s BUF in the 30s, the one that really broke through with the masses, was that all the creepy fash stuff (esp. the uniforms) was *un-British*. That is the angle to keep pounding away at - the foreign donations, the obvious mimicry of the 🇺🇸 alt-right.
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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lights out for birds! Please share! #migration #BirdsMatter
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This didn't just happen because of the tech bros and the media, but because across the political spectrum there was an assumption that Europe was impregnable, and didn't really have to make choices whether tax and spend, investment, healthcare, you name it. But we do.
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Martin @radders.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think this is one of the keys to our time. National populists are always corrupt; I had a few years ago the idea of doing one of those broad books about Our Times and calling it ‘The Age of Fraud’ or something like that.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is this the lanyard class that I've been hearing so much about? #ReformConference
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just amazing how complicit Cambridge university has been in demolishing enlightenment values. I thought Oxford provided the scholars for the magisterium.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A former BBC exec tells me: ‘As ever the BBC is salami-slicing..with no regard for the future. Apprentices cost so so so little. Their salaries are tiny. As always the BBC is looking to make savings in the “easy” places as it’s so reluctant to ruffle important feathers.’
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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🔴 NEW The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero Attacks By Donnachadh McCarthy Read below. ↓
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The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch's Net Zero Attacks
Onward, whose report underpinned Claire Coutinho's speech tearing up the 2050 target, has taken money from National Grid, Equinor, Shell and BP
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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BBC to give the world premiere of Pet Shop Boys’ newly revised A man from the future
The composition explores the life, death and influence of pioneering mathematician Alan Turing
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Shor Films @shorfilms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
trump Iran War hits 6-month mark with no end in sight. trump said it would be 2 weeks while war criminal Pete Hegseth fires dozens of top generals/admirals for perceived slights endangering the military overall. This failure is condoned by Republicans in Congress.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In 2025 trade unions gave £4.9 million to Labour. Individual donors gave £16 million to Reform & £9 million to the Tories. In total Labour raised £10 mill, Reform £19 mill & the Tories £21 mill. If the *unions* are blocking a donor cap, they've lost their minds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham has dropped his support for capping political donations, causing anger among activists and Labour MPs who have long campaigned for change to the way parties are funded.

The prime minister has decided not to back amendments to the elections bill, which would cap the amount a person or an organisation can give in a single donation, according to government sources.

The decision comes after a lobbying campaign from Labour’s trade union backers, who said amendments to the bill, which returns to parliament for its remaining stages next week, could undermine their ability to donate to the party. It is also a retreat from the support Burnham gave to the idea just a few weeks ago, when he emailed a campaigner for electoral reform to say he would support a donations cap of £500,000.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Do you have a copy of the Reader's Digest Folklore, Myths and Legends? I've written about it for the @theobserveruk.bsky.social this weekend. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reader's Digest Folklore, Myths and Legends book from 1973
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, Paris. A big parade, but without any coloured soldiers. On authority of the Allies, shameful. #WW2 #HISTORY
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
again Trumps illinformed ambitions have demonstrated America is weaker than it appeared. Thats bad for deterrence and the ambitions of its enemies. But can they afford to rebuild in time? It seems very unlikely.
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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Things happening at the University of Cambridge which have not received hundreds of front page news stories in the last month. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@nytimes.com What an absolutely BATSHIT country! Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w....
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Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime?
Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system’s cross hairs.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've noticed this too.
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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On a lamppost this morning:
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
this is a banger
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Side note, that particular investigation lead to the police confiscating Lowe's firearms and yet seemingly no further information?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 03/08/2026
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Beefing with the Big Mac Index
McDonald’s signature burger offers economic lessons — but not about purchasing power parity
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Freeview switch-off is a terrible idea for many reasons, not least that the signal is much, much more reliable than broadband and isn't subject to DNS attacks.
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is still top of the playbook
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hard to think of a headline that could more succinctly sum up the state of the USA at this time.
Screenshot of the cover of a MeidasTouch podcast from 2nd August 2026, with the headline: “Trump gives in to Iran and awards himself golf trophies”.
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Genial Jim @genialjim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w... #niceforeverwaryouhavegotyourselfthere
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In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Everything will keep getting worse until we reach net zero. If you only believe in adaptation, you have to adapt forever. But at some point we reach the limit of human ingenuity and physics, and can't adapt any further. Meanwhile, we need essentially no new tech to reach net zero
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Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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This Is Fine Meme Dog
Alt: This Is Fine Meme Dog
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Brilliant 🔥
TRUMP HAS NOTCARDS IRAN HAS LA STRAIT
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/07/2026
Gifted, Passionate Student Really Stretching Limits Of School’s Resources theonion.com/gifted-passionate-stud…
Gifted, Passionate Student Really Stretching Limits Of School’s Resources
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
once again tapping the sign: please support independent, worker run, reader funded newsrooms how and where you are able to.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
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Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
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