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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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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 10h
Again what exactly does Nandy do all day?
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I liked that line too
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The people nitpicking the welcome change (or clarification) of tone/position are fundamentally unserious about the threat and the extent of the drift to this point. We 100% need conservative politicians to start speaking like this, and any objection as to the form is a nth order concern right now
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes Kemi has spoken. But so has Janan.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Agree. I also think in general, politicians should always argue as if yesterday was slightly better than it was and that tomorrow will be even better. Particularly if you are actually a minority politician.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch attacks Reform UK: “I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing. Nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn't have sitting MPs question whether they were English. We must not let these people take us backwards.”
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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see lots of suggestions Reform figures are suing/going to sue various organisations and individuals but I dont recall ever seeing details of one of the cases in court or settled? Do they just get settled quietly? It seems unlikely that they wouldn't want to make something of a successful case?
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
basically a sermon with the God bits removed
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
people send in stuff like that all the time and on purpose - Gordon Brown is a super brainy guy, but others think if you write like that it makes you sound brainy - it's just dreadful
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazing piece by @christinalamb.bsky.social - what a female war reporter sees when looking at the Bayeux Tapestry www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
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Verifying Device
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/10/2026
Former German spy chief arrested for treason ft.trib.al/vePDUVk
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Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Former intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to a foreign power
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm sorry but our Bayeux Travesty was better so there and we had Healey's Comet and everything #SketchyPoliticsRuleth @financialtimes.com
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Late to posting this as I’ve been walking round a reservoir in Lancashire in pissing rain, apparently trying to be as northern as possible The prime minister is a conscious user of language, but possibly also an unconscious one as.ft.com/r/d9b8ea73-3...
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The Burnham tell
The prime minister’s conference speech was authentically Andy
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was trying to work out if it would look good on anyone - maybe Liam Neeson
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's the knitwear
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Simeon Kerr @simeonkerr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What can Burnham learn from Scotland’s social care system?
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What can Burnham learn from Scotland’s social care system?
Free personal care for the over-65s was rolled out in Scotland in 2002
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What was the moment you realised you had no grasp of the world anymore? This did it for me www.ft.com/content/f109...
Many creators seek to ride more shortlived waves of internet popularity. Shira
Jeczmien, founder of viral marketing agency Screenshot Media, points to a brief trend of people eating whole cucumbers that led to shortages of the vegetable in supermarkets.
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dept of Seeking Comfort latest announcement from @elainemoore.bsky.social - AI can't smell. All hail the human nose. www.ft.com/content/dd33...
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Why we can thumb our noses at AI
Our sense of smell helps us to keep a few shreds of privacy intact and maintains a dividing line between real and virtual worlds
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Them: I feel like a XXXX Me: You don't look like one
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
They should come on Bluesky and get most of the FT for free
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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's off to Fantasycon! @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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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I already agree with the headline and SF - will read with interest thanks for sharing
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
clearly green screen
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so I would hope and expect
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
but won't somebody please think of the consultants
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oo oo plse share it Tabs
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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
highly processed in most commercial products, hydrogenated as well as other chemical processes - and its high in the sort of omega fats we already have too much of - compare and contrast with extra virgin olive oil which has zero downsides (and even standard olive oil)
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they dont seem to use olive oil - like, even the hummus has canola oil in it with god knows what additives - baaaaaaad
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
side note re unhealthy US diet: during my very short stint in the DC bureau, I had mostly subs for lunch and otherwise bought and ate what I thought was normal food ony to find that 'canola oil' was in everything - 6 weeks my skin and innards never want to go back to
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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
did you see this from Gill Plimmer ? mindblowing www.ft.com/content/e90b...
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Blow for drought-hit England as opening of new reservoir delayed by 5 years
Concern over water supplies likely to grow as cost of Havant Thicket project more than doubles
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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
if you did* believe that Alan you would not be lonely *can't fool me bud
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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
this is sensational! Poor @pronouncedalva.bsky.social ! But deffo not last night which was Liz Kendall and Matthew Syed and Vic presenting - Matt Chorley does Fridays
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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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