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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

how dare she impose this unwanted identity on me

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ABSOLUTELY NOT on the grounds that I refuse to be considered English

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"One option the government proposes is that hosts can switch to landlord status and charge refugees rent." What a cheap, ghoulish way to try to save money. Keeping Shabana Mahmood in post is a stain on the supposed progressive turn of the Burnham government. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Ukrainians in UK fear cut to funds for Homes for Ukraine hosts could make them homeless

Monthly ‘thank you’ payments for people hosting refugees in their homes will be cut from £350 to £100 from next year

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

EMOTIONALLY I CANT TYPE WITH SUCH RAGE

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was optimistic, not knowing of the author’s work, that it might at least be a clumsy but well intentioned take on her handling of the Greek debt crisis. Of course it was not.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like aside from the quality and ethics of using this thing that takes no effort WHY ARE YOU SO EMPTIONALLY INVESTED IN IT

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t believe that “these bullet points don’t actually summarize the document” has made people accuse me of ableism and bigotry because they didn’t bother to read something AI read for them.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t believe that saying “having a heavily polluting machine write your papers for you is academic misconduct, and the writing is bad” is a statement that elicits dramatic defensive statements and brings people to the verge of tears.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I could spend the rest of my life trying and still wouldn’t understand the extreme emotional reactions people have when you criticize genAI or their usage of it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People keep thinking I am kidding when I say we are in the end times

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2026

woman currently using the cafe's toilet as a cubicle to take a work call from (??) is an exciting new frontier in the "have people forgotten how to behave in the world" discourse we've been having here lately

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes but the tweet is funnier without all this

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Swedish elections are weird because everyone gets a rush of anxiety watching the results come in and then everything freezes for 2-4 days while we wait to see if a bunch of Stockholm School of Economics alumni in New York and London decided to support fascism.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...

ft.com

Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi, #UCU. UCU's Anti-casualisation committee are running an Equality & Anticas webinar on 23rd September, at 12.30pm and 5pm. Come and hear from chair Ben Pope, and speakers Suzi Toole, Andy Ward and Kevin Daws. Links to register and more info in linked post. Please share and pass to contacts!

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is tough to discern between Stockholm syndrome and sincere commitment. And with no prospect of release and treatment, I suppose the former becomes sincere anyway.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One could try to argue that L gets more of its policy programme passed through Tidö. Debatable. And depends on what the priority party platform is. January Agreement had more concessions for L than it did for C or MP. And they’re not even seriously debating going for some combination of JA + M/KD.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

L could be powerful kingmaker & get policy + cabinet posts if it forms cross-bloc coalition. Would also enhance prospects for future. L cannot survive on strategic support alone forever, surely? Why does so-called liberal party actively *want* to govern w/ the far right & wield less influence?

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is completely post-rational that L is so adamant on this. Mohamsson was firm in her “victory” speech & interviews that it will be a blue-yellow cooperation, that January Agreement was a failure… whereas even Kristersson was more careful to remain open to different scenarios.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026

FE staff have waited long enough. UCU president Dyfrig Jones moves Motion 40 at #TUC26, demanding: A 10% pay rise Pay parity with schoolteachers A return to national bargaining #FurtherEducation #RespectFE #UCU

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can you really trust someone with national security if they don’t appreciate Dedicated?

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I vote for MP because I believe in identity politics and Britney Spears is my identity

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No but I feel an SD person would definitely play Timber at every possible operating

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s impossible, watching Ulf Kristersson speak, to figure out how he can be tolerated by, much less popular among, so much of the public. I don’t even mean this as a personal political preference; he answers press in an extraordinarily arrogant and dismissive tone & his posh voice is grating

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I didn’t want to be so unkind as to ask this

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That feels disgustingly on brand

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If we ever needed a reminder about the dangers of taking polls at face value, this is it. In an exit poll at 20:00 tonight, Swedish Television predicted that the Left-Green-Center bloc would win the election by 4.5%. With almost almost 90% of districts reporting, their lead is 0.1%.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kristersson is now glowing as he talks about their popularity with first-time voters and thanking youth for support, getting huge applause. A speech theme, apparently.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I missed Jimmie’s exit song what did he go with?

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Big shoutout also to Simona Mohamsson/L. It’s interesting that he refused to endorse strategic voting for so long despite their “Sweden Plan”, but they had only glowing comments for each other tonight.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes plz all my S friend are at the valvaka at HQ I would assume

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was only 75% focused because I Just Can’t. But it seemed that his big point was trying to claim that even if they lost, they are the winners. Reasons include that “many people are no longer afraid to admit that they vote SD” or something to that effect. Um…?

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I haven’t kept up with the internal party politics at this level of granularity (eg Katalys role) since moving to the UK in 2022, but this still sounds entirely accurate.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes, making such a big gesture to the youth wing was an interesting choice…

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Alice @wordsbyalice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can I get an analysis of their walk off songs because ‘The Best’ was a choice

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Simona choosing the Official Song of the Mayor Pete Dance?

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hitting exact same points in follow up interview with press. Thanks to the youth & student wings; tight race but expects to have just enough seats to govern. Deflecting, saying she will say more when final result is in. Saying in both speech & interview that S “takes responsibility for the results”.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Huge thanks to the youth and student wings for delivering their “success” and promising a new government. Some generic platitudes about how “we” are “stronger togehter”. Then a Tina Turner song.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is difficult to find Andersson’s victory speech credible when she’s delivered the worst result since the Spanish Flu.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The only thing that can save Andersson is that she can become Prime Minister again, as she is leading the party to the worst election result since 1908 and the first time under 100 seats since 1928!

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think this is an incredibly important point to make. The Liberals could easily be part of a centrist government with policies closer to their purported preferences and values. They certainly could try. But they don’t want to; they want to cooperate with the far right.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Busch now also making the case for blue-yellow. Amazing change of tune from her previous efforts to go rogue and explore an S government option.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is unsurprising. But seeing it on election night is really something.

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mohamsson coming out so forcefully against Andersson as PM (to wild applause) and calling for “blue-yellow” cooperation really cements the far right turn of the “Liberals”. She’s not even pretending they are open to a “mitten regering”.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sweden's Social Democrats on target to get 99 seats in parliament (out of 349). That's their worst result since 1928. In March, Denmark's Social Democrats had their worst election result since 1903. What to they have in common? Mimicking "hard line" right-wing policies. It's a recipe for disaster.

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