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Rhys Thomas

@iamrhysthomas.bsky.social
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Associate Director at BLUE. Shipping nerd and Labour Party campaigner. All opinions my own 🌹

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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Credit to @adamhug.bsky.social @carasanquest.bsky.social and Westminster colleagues for reinvesting in Children’s Centres locally after a decade of cuts and closures. This is how to make a difference
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The EU's latest shipping rules show pragmatism but lack punch. Flexible compliance? Yes. Paris-aligned? No. With 1% future fuel targets, we're running the wrong way. Over to you, @IMOHQ. ⏰ www.blue-comms.com/news/fueleu-...
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FuelEU Maritime: an imperfect storm? | News | BLUE Comms
FuelEU Maritime enforces strict GHG rules for ships in EU waters, driving decarbonisation. Discover its impact on the marine industry in our blog.
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Wonderful news
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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Excellent thread explaining trends in ‘in-work’ poverty over recent years. Secure, affordable housing not the only factor but still key..
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Look at the positive framing of each one! No downsides to, say, tariffs are offered. Junk polling. (Luke is kinder but has similar reservations)
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Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Delighted to announce @citywestminster.bsky.social is doubling the size of its short-let enforcement team to chase down rogue landlords letting out party flats across and are further expanding the noise team to investigate and tackle noise issues.
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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just what is needed. Illegal short-lets reduce the number of homes for people to live in, and turn residential neighbourhoods into unmanaged corners of the hospitality industry. @citywestminster.bsky.social is right to get a grip.
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Cllr Regan Hook @rhook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excited to be canvassing for our fantastic candidate, Joanna in #VincentSquare ! 🌹 @jcr4vsward.bsky.social www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/commu...
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Introducing Joanna Camadoo-Rothwell - Westminster Labour Councillors
Your Local Labour Candidate for the Vincent Square By-election on Thursday 27 February Following the sad passing of Labour Councillor Gillian Arrindell, who worked tirelessly for Vincent Square reside...
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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About 1 million people in UK yet to obtain eVisa days before deadline
Physical residence permits proving right to live and work in Britain will cease to be valid at end of December
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
From yesterday: Home Office minister makes statement on eVisas | Sonia Lenegan
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Home Office minister makes statement on eVisas - Free Movement
Following reports of planned concessions around the 31 December 2024 deadline for people to get their eVisas, today Seema Malhotra MP the Minister for
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This frustrates me greatly. Too many people struggle to break free from our quasi-feudal rental sector. I feel greatly for renters whose homes - their essential security - are just part of somebody else's portfolio
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 05/12/2024
🚨NEW: Keir Starmer states that the planning system is a ‘blockage in our economy that is so big that it obscures an entire future’ “It’s a chokehold on the growth our country needs, suffocating the aspirations of working families”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The two most important, for me: planning reform, because the system is strangling progress, and decarbonising the grid by 2030. Cutting waiting lists is needed, of course.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/11/2024
not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Transport for London have announced a tougher new regime for share e-bikes like Lime etc. From now on, they should usually be left in designated parking bays, with the possibility of fines or even an injunction against operators if this doesn't happen.
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New report shows London's universal free school meals program is a huge success. 270k more kids getting meals, 89% take-up rate, parents report less stress + better concentration from kids. Families on Universal Credit say it's significantly helping finances. www.onlondon.co.uk/sadiq-khans-...
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Sadiq Khan's free school meals policy having positive effects, says report - OnLondon
The provision of free meals for all of London’s primary school children has alleviated food poverty, benefited school communities and been good for their family lives, according to a report by an inde...
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Now this place is cooking, maybe worth doing a big old energy thread. Let’s talk about how electricity prices are set, why they’re so high in Britain, and how we could reduce them… 🧵
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I was an economist at the BoE at the same time as she worked there. She was an economist. I walked past her desk a few times a day. I read notes she wrote. Attended the same meetings. The last time I wrote this on Twitter someone replied 'you supported masks and lockdown'.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A prominent contributor to fuelling escalating online rumours about the sub judice Southport case was former No 10 advisor Dominic Cummings. He got 845k views for a "nothing would surprise me" tweet sharing the rumour (235pm, Nov 17th) before tweeting that this "does NOT stack up" an hour later
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Sad, staggering research from the IFS: when 30% of London's youth clubs closed due to austerity, affected areas saw youth crime rise by 14%. Every £1 'saved' by closures cost society £3. These clubs are lifelines, not luxuries. Research shows they change lives. ifs.org.uk/publications...
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The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
That was a poor #PMQs for Badenoch. She seemed weirdly more nervous than she was last week, during her first one. The theme emerging is that Starmer is not in charge of his brief and can’t think on his feet. It would help not to be garbling your words while reading from a script when claiming that.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Musk led “efficiency department” seems like the model Trump announcement - delights fans, dismays enemies, rewards celebrity supporters and, when you look at the fine print, doesn’t actually do anything.
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Rhys Thomas @iamrhysthomas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Extremely late on the uptake here, but I highly recommend the Bluesky Directory (blueskydirectory.com). Brilliant tools to help migrate away from X, including a searchable starter pack database which has added rocket fuel to finding interesting people on here.
blueskydirectory.com
The Ultimate Directory of tools and applications for Bluesky
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Ok we need to get breaking political news onto BlueSky so here goes: the brilliant Jonathan Powell announced as UK National Security Adviser www.miragenews.com/jonathan-pow...
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Jonathan Powell Named National Security Adviser
The Prime Minister has today announced the appointment of Jonathan Powell as the Prime Minister's National Security Adviser based in No10 Downing
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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
No idea what to even do about it but we in the UK need to defend the BBC with our lives
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Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
This is something we could really use in the UK too.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
The UK’s summer 2024 riots have turned Twitter into a playground for far right grifters and trolls spewing disinformation. Notably a large part of this is being imported from America.
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