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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to get Glastonbury tickets is simply mortifying, because what do you mean I've studied like a scholar to get in the world's biggest queue to pay a small fortune to sleep in a field

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Conservative conference begins today, and I've tried to work out the paradox of a party more unified and upbeat than in years but also, by any conventional polling metric, still in deep, deep trouble. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Party conference will be more upbeat than last year, Tories say – but that’s not the whole story

The mood is better but ‘overhyped’, says one Conservative MP as party remains a distant third in polls

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm SO late to this (*sends apologetic glance to my inbox full of unread newsletters*) but this was a 10/10 read

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bluesky wants me to verify my age before I can DM anyone. Counterpoint: surely being on Bluesky at all is definitive proof of age?

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It seems bizarre that this has to be said, but telling people that you'll scrap the Triple Lock in Four Years If You Win The Next Election is not actually the same as scrapping the Triple Lock.

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just came out of Digger and feel like I got waterboarded. Bold swing, yes... at my head

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026

"No one on Bluesky thinks they’re interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along

Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...

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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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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/09/2026

"Shabana Mahmood is the cabinet minister responsible for the UK’s policing and its national security – as well, of course, as managing the country’s borders…I include this reminder because Mahmood increasingly seems to be operating under the assumption that her job only concerns the latter."

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If Shabana Mahmood is tough, why is she so slow to crack down on Danny Tommo and the far right?

Weeks of what looks like blatant lawbreaking have finally resulted in an arrest. But the home secretary seems happy to look elsewhere

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026

Damn. @tobyn.bsky.social has produced the most detailed map of Big AI’s incestuous relationships I’ve seen so far. And it’s interactive! www.ft.com/content/8475...

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How is it possible that every outlet under the sun has commissioned an opinion take on Sydney Sweeney, like it's an ADVERT you're literally doing its job for it

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/09/2026

In both China and the west, the gig economy has become a sort of safety net/labour market shock absorber. But automation is coming for a lot of this work. Which means the biggest impact of AI/robots might unfold in the dark, in the part of the economy hardest to track. www.ft.com/content/a2c3...

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Imagine being called a nerd in the Sunday Times I fear I'd never recover

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This scoop by my colleagues is really alarming, it reflects a troubling shift in how some AI researchers are operating. Ultimately very hard for Aisi do its work in a world of heightened geopolitical tension and competition:

ft.com

Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency

Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when a Labour government condemned a bunch of grannies to jail for protesting an ongoing genocide. And also when the Met tackled women to the ground at a vigil for Sarah Everard

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Incidents like this have happened with increasing regularity over the past couple of years, with many triggered by local misinformation about the arrival of non-white people at hotels But it has also happened elsewhere, including a church gathering in a park and a Scout trip to an activity centre

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The great thing about having a cat is they're so independent and dignified and definitely never try to velociraptor their way into the bathroom to find you

Cat paws coming through under a bathroom door

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I know I phrased this facetiously but in all seriousness, I genuinely believe we can't properly tackle the root of violent thuggery and weaponised rioting without acknowledging the gender dimensions

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The more I think about it, the more the idea of treating couples who live together but choose not to marry like they've entered into a secret stealth marriage is an insult to all relationships - married and non-married alike. This week's New Statesman column www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

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Treating cohabiting couples like they're married is a mad idea

A new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they've tied the knot

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can I just reiterate out that if the "concerns" really were legitimate and this was all driven by feelings of anger at being deprived and "left behind" then there would be just as many women in black masks out there as men

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was forced to sit through the 25-minute "trailer" gameplay for Grand Theft Auto VI and anyone who tries to claim this is going to be a "more feminist interpretation" of the franchise or "empowering for women" I have a visible thong to sell you

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was just watching “I’m Still Here”, a film about a family suffering under the Brazilian dictatorship, and one thing not discussed enough about the rise of fascism is: for a lot of people, it’s the perfect chance to unleash hate as a recreational activity. For them, it’s fun.

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not to be all "this is why men are temperamentally unsuited to power" but

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

absolute banger, this one

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We did a podcast episode in April on why the great Dolly Parton seemed to be the most unifying figure in America, and whether her "Dollitics" were really as apolitical as she claimed. I adored her open.spotify.com/episode/2ZwG...

open.spotify.com

Pakistani prestige, Ulster gold and Dolly Parton

The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann · Episode

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm just gonna say it. I went to Cambridge and some of the professors, and people working in the recruitment / HR-like bureaucratic infrastructure, were some of the most blindly stupid people I've encountered. But they were too impressed with their own intellectual "grandeur" to realise

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think we still underplay how much this has to do with X. It remains the main platform used by politicians, commentators and journalists, it was bought by Musk precisely for this purpose, and it's worked

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

you can practically hear them slobbering!!

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/08/2026

There are no mosques – or specialist halal food shops – in County Durham. Christian churches are helping Muslim asylum seekers pay the bus fares, so they make the journeys to worship (and buy some food)

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Sorry Andy – Manchester and ‘the north’ aren’t the same thing

Just because it worked in the big city, doesn’t mean it’s going to work across the north. If you want to understand the problem, just go to County Durham

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What else is the point of a historic majority but to hold firm on policies that save children's lives??

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🔴EXCLUSIVE🔴 I worked with @georgegreenwood.bsky.social & Tom Ball at the Times to expose how Farage’s “personal friend” John Mappin was a member of a far right conspiracist crypto scheme later accused of scamming investors www.opendemocracy.net/nigel-farage...

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Nigel Farage denies link to crypto conspiracist John Mappin

New investigation into Scientologist and QAnon enthusiast John Mappin raises fresh questions about Farage's allies

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15/08/2026

Good morning time is tight today, but here are a few giftlinks to highlights from FT Weekend. First up this eye opening and brilliant reporting about the shadow network fighting the world's bloodiest war as.ft.com/r/147ade5b-b...

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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war

Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Weddings are a socially legitimised opportunity to torture your friends

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Am I being a bad feminist when I say I don't give a shit about the eclipse?

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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 22/06/2026

How Keir Starmer was undone by caution and no clear plan FT’s political obituary of the outgoing prime minister By @chris-smyth.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d926...

ft.com

How Keir Starmer was undone by caution and no clear plan

Labour in ‘last chance saloon’ as party’s shortest-serving prime minister announces resignation

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