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Miranda Green

@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZr…

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 14h
If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 13h
My second visit to #Battle church. Hadn’t seen this @GreenMan before. Neither had locals. #Lookup!
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 16h
This is a sublime piece www.ft.com/content/1849...
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What the artist wore — unpacking a century of studio style
The recent rediscovery of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle’s workwear has inspired an exhibition in Paris exploring how artists use clothing as a creative act
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 16h
Happy to be proved wrong (if, that is, I am proved wrong).
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I know why social care isn’t being fixed
Finding £17,000 a month towards the care of my parents forced me to reflect on the collective delusions and political cowardice that conspire to prevent us confronting – once and for all – this huge s...
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20h
They should come on Bluesky and get most of the FT for free
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 21h
Was curious about the whole going "we need to be where we were 40 years ago" thing. Found this from the ONS - real disposable incomes today are almost twice that of 1986. Obviously there's a lot that needs fixing (housing!). But I feel like this is relevant...? www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gros...
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Households: Real disposable Income, per head: Chained volume measure (reference year = 2024) £: Seasonally adjusted - Office for National Statistics
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Right to Roam Print Shop is closing soon! Every print helps fund our campaign to open up more of the countryside and improve access to nature. If you’d like to support the push for a Right to Roam, now’s the time to grab yourself a print. www.righttoroam.org.uk/category/all...
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 'thrift flip' to end all thrift flips
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it really 5 party politics or a load of 2 party politics in every area (and crucially a battle to be 1 of those 2)? Great piece based on new research from @martamiori.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social of Nuffield College - www.ft.com/content/28ea...
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Is the UK electorate fragmenting? Not so fast
The battle between Labour and the Conservatives for national dominance has given way to multiple local fights to be in the top two
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
wtf went on here? Did somebody accidentally support a wind turbine
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent nuanced health warning here ...
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rarely am I able to recommend an FT column that ends with "happy days" for the UK - but @chrisgiles.ft.com came through for us with this www.ft.com/content/c819...
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Why your holiday is good news for the UK
For once we should thank the Office for National Statistics for its productivity reporting
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am very tired and this is kind of working in terms of keeping my brain alive for 3.59 minutes at a time is it the BPM? anyway, recommend open.spotify.com/track/3yobQN...
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Fade To Grey
Visage · Visage · Song · 1980
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most senior female teacher in our co-ed school gave a talk about uniform breaches in which she told us that some girls could get away with shorter skirts because they had better legs
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 29/07/2025
Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA
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Polly Smythe @pollysmythe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to see the FT picking up @londoncentric.media's story on the curious sale of Nick Candy's mansion to Suneil Setiya www.ft.com/content/1ca6...
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Labour MPs call for end to loophole that trimmed billionaire’s tax bill by £18mn
Quadrature Capital’s Suneil Setiya would have been liable for higher rate of stamp duty had he not bought five flats together with London mansion
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such a fascinating range of projects funded through our small grants including looking at who voters blame for inflation, evaluating implementation of UK security/defence reviews and how geopolitics is impacting the UK semiconductor sector www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Awards 2026
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Today's Janan Ganesh is 💯 as.ft.com/r/fcc14c9d-b...
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great story from @judewebber.bsky.social about Trump versus a teeny tiny Irish snail as.ft.com/r/23bfa818-b...
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Tiny snail stalls Donald Trump’s Irish golf ambitions
US president arrives in Ireland on Saturday as environmentalists oppose his ‘other ballroom’ to protect the narrow-mouthed whorl snail
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 11/09/2026
AI: Is Britain prepared? On Political Fix this week the FT’s AI editor Madhu Murgia, @robertshrimsley.bsky.social, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & I discuss tech doomerism, the UK-Israel reset, and the Met police probe into Reform… Out now! 🎙️📻🎧
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To explain P-doom and the AI extinction scares Madhumita Murgia joined @lucyfisher.ft.com on Pol Fix this week with @robertshrimsley.bsky.social and I sitting quaking beside her - a great expert witness www.ft.com/content/4fcc...
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AI: Is Britain prepared?
Plus, Burnham breaks with Starmer over Israel
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Am I the only person endlessly sent back to David Bowie Five Years by all the AI doom chat?? My P-doom number is 5 in his honour open.spotify.com/track/1JIzFh...
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Five Years - 2012 Remaster
David Bowie · The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2012 Remaster) · Song · 1972
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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
enjoyable diatribe against Lucy Powell and the new cabinet's thinking on secondary curriculum - let's face it, if we're not careful, we will end up with sheep and goatsism and I'm clearly not the only one worried about this (come for the fury, stay for the delicous chip on his shoulder) 👇
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a country we have become when the RNLI has to post things like this. Just over 1% of their total rescue work is in the Channel. Meanwhile Reform and Restore continue to badmouth the service.

The RNLI is a charity that exists to save lives at sea.

But recent events have generated deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding about our purpose and our lifesaving work in the Channel.

As a result, some of our volunteers and staff have been the subject of online and, in some cases, physical abuse.

This is unacceptable.

The RNLI's people represent the very best of society. For over two hundred years they have dedicated themselves to rescuing people they've never met before, without judgment, fear or favour.

We are tasked by HM Coastguard to help those in distress, and we'll do so whenever, wherever and whoever they are.

We launched 9,058 times in 2025.

Only 109 of those launches were to those in distress in the Channel - 1.2% of our total rescue work. Anyone rescued from a small boat by the RNLI is then taken into the care of the relevant UK authorities.

To those who stand with the RNLI, thank you. For more than two hundred years, we've saved lives at sea around the UK and Ireland, and that commitment remains unchanged.
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Since @timbale.bsky.social alerted me to what looks like a fab re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in Oct, I now humbly share our attempt at the FT Festival @robertshrimsley.bsky.social to recreate the 'Bayeux Travesty' a narrative frieze for our own times. vue panoramique! @financialtimes.com
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gordon Brown for the FT on the growth challenge - www.ft.com/content/53d6...
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Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problem
We need to support the next generation of start-ups to become internationally competitive
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...
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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters
Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What seems like about 3 weeks ago but was actually on Friday, wrote this for the Sat FT about the crackdown on school uniform costs - been going on for literally years, this one - in the comments it's 90% 'why have a uniform anyway' www.ft.com/content/1e2c...
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‘What the blazers?’ The long fight over school uniform costs
Successive governments have grappled with the problem without managing to impose a standardised policy
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some thoughts on the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and how it might play out:
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How worried should Labour be about holding Keir Starmer’s seat?
Party’s poll ratings have improved under Andy Burnham but this is uncharted territory for Labour and Zack Polanski’s Greens
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Susan Sontag wrote “Notes on ‘Camp’” in 1964 -- the year Dolly Parton graduated high school and moved from the hills of East Tennessee to Nashville. Today, the essay reads as an homage: as.ft.com/r/89788b64-3...
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fascinating analysis of what AI is doing to our trust in text by @elainemoore.bsky.social moore - with a clever online analysis of what a checker thinks of a long paragraph - it's getting very very complicated www.ft.com/content/f100...
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this was a really good discussion last night
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Love this, especially the @secondmentions.com for Kim Philby: "that absolute copper-bottomed cad and bounder".
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And so as this very dubious week draws to a close, I cannot help but wonder if it's better to adopt a completely different persona www.ft.com/content/014f... By me for FT Sat Mag while @robertshrimsley.bsky.social is at the beach
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Should I use an alias?
A nom de guerre or a nom de plume — both would allow you to explore the road less travelled
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Oh look, a notice reminding people that sexual offences are crimes and will be punished, which the vast majority of viewers do not need to be reminded of but which could make a difference to the few who do - or to victims or witnesses. Apparently this is grounds for everyone to lose their minds
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sadly Terry and I have decided to divorce - amicably - and the house is on the market.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/08/2026
POD chatted to @olafstorbeck.ft.com about the crazy heatwave in Germany, the shrivelling Rhine, and the economic impact of the whole hot hot summer www.ft.com/content/da9d...
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Heatwaves and waterways
How climate change is hurting Germany’s economy
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And so as this very dubious week draws to a close, I cannot help but wonder if it's better to adopt a completely different persona www.ft.com/content/014f... By me for FT Sat Mag while @robertshrimsley.bsky.social is at the beach
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Should I use an alias?
A nom de guerre or a nom de plume — both would allow you to explore the road less travelled
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/fb58... ‘Manchesterism’ must honour the city’s global outlook
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‘Manchesterism’ must honour the city’s global outlook
Understanding Burnham’s term as a shorthand for inward-looking, transactional politics is misguided
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wrote this to a tight deadline before holiday - what a total liberation re both - hardly anybody read it however - also away or ahem rationalising distractions- swings and bloomin roundabouts innit? by me for @financialtimes.com with thanks to the Pope for inspo as.ft.com/r/30112ec3-f...
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In praise of deadlines
We moan about them but imagine how awful working life would be if we were drowning in unfinished business
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
English Harriet Martineau observations of America in 1840.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think this is wholly correct with the fascinating rub that what that crowd crave is an apartheid society but some of them are mad enough to believe that you can ethnically cleanse your way to it.
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
superb sentence
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Do crack up at how we keep getting these announcements about Labour loosening rules to get growth going which always include new, additional requirements Labour is introducing
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