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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Next time Jim Ratcliffe pontificates about how to run the country, people should remember he doesn't even know how to run a football club...
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Martínez has drawn back the curtain on Manchester United’s ruinous ownership | Jonathan Liew
Defender may not be blameless in team’s struggles but his criticism goes to the heart of what has gone wrong at the club
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Terrorism law is a special body of law which should be taken seriously. The UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action discredits terrorism law.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hopefully Palantir will find it hard to compete for contracts with the Met on the grounds that the owners’ overt fascism and complicity with Trump make them a national security threat.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
rte.ie
Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
All the far-right 'patriots' are on Russia's side
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism
Migrant households receive record 12 bn in universal creditMigrants taking 4 in 5 new jobs
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work*
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.
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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When you find yourself debating what’s the “most humane” way of killing a person, it’s time to go see a psychiatrist
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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is up there with the horrified reports you sometimes see from HR departments that in a Monday to Friday working week up to 40% of sick days are taken on a Monday or Friday
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Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"London has the largest number of Neets, an estimated 117,100, or one in six of all Neets in England, said the report" - you'll never guess what the other thing that London has one in six of all the things in England is.
uk.finance.yahoo.com
More than a third of Neets living in nine largest cities, research finds
A study has shone light on ‘stark differences’ between areas.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh superb! Someone has got the glorious screenshot, of Russian Brexit bottery at its best. bsky.app/profile/marc...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Again, the ONLY reason U.S. democracy might survive is the incompetence of the GOP - not the competence of the Democrats or the strength of the institutions.
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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon
An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I always ask my students about the Oklahoma City Bombing when I teach “Far Right Politics”. The vast majority of students were not taught about it in high school! 🤯
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Everybody & every one of our institutions needs to get off twitter. It’s 2026, & there are Nazis at the Nazi Bar. Look around.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It seems apt that Manchester City fans adopted the Poznan, a celebration where everybody looks the other way.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA
A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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James Steel @jamessteel2008.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Then they should’ve all be rounded up and arrested, so much for protecting women and girls. These fascist Neo Nazi thugs won’t see see the irony of their actions.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just fully on Putin's side So many iterations of Trump whisperers supposedly working their magic and every time we come back to this
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
absolutely terrible, stupid framing. DOGE could have *only* been a "missed opportunity" if it had been conceived, planned, & implemented exactly opposite of how it was, by people who did not think like they did, for goals antithetical to their actual goals.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Boom! 💥 Man, Social Democrats defeating the far right. That is going to be such a big media story, right? Right?
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Incredible scandal. First the ex-BvS chief turns out to be a far-rightist and now the ex-BND chief turns out to be a traitor (we already knew that he also was a nativist). Germany is rotting from the top.
ft.com
Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/10/2026
An uncanny ability to be wrong in every possible domain.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the many bizarre things about this garbage is that it's invariably propagated by people who would get snapped like twiglets in the kind of macho-man, might-is-right society they crave. Only Elon Musk thinks that Elon Musk is an alpha male.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...
theguardian.com
Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I lost friends over antisemitism in Labour. I tried to argue that the fact that people on the right were trying to use antisemitism as a weapon against Labour (and they were, in bad faith) did not mean that antisemitism did not exist in Labour (it did). This argument still echoes.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe at the electoral level, but Peter Magyar came in with intimate knowledge of the corruption, a clear plan of action, and the drive to do something about it. The Democrats so far score 0 for 3 on this one.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That the BBC still puts ‘inflated‘ in speech marks tells us things about the state of BBC journalism. Bothsidesism has rotted its soul. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?
BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The "Zionism is racism" motion, to be debated at the Green Party conference tomorrow, will not advance the Palestinian cause one inch. But, if adopted, it would marginalise and discredit the party. There are powerful ways to confront the genocide. Toxic gesture politics isn't one of them.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Anthony Cunningham @sqferryman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worse; in medieval times they would probably have decided that two failed executions was a sign from God and pardoned the prisoner.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On stay/return rates, some very rough and ready data from the Census. Doesn't exactly back up Burnham's argument [this probably understates short-term circular migration from the EU. However, idea that free movement was mostly/mainly "revolving door"/temporary, as Burnham suggest, is complete BS.]
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Free movement *does* benefit migrants by giving them more freedom/options, and improves labour market flexibility overall. These are good arguments for it, compared to a managed system, that I've made many times. Burnham's "it gives us Gastarbeiter" is both false and regressive.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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