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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Fascists: Jump! British Media: How high?

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I wish that Spotify or similar would let people make radio shows, where they play music and talk in between. Since you've paid to access the music, it would be nice to have people share and curate, but with rambling humanity in the chat, not just playlists. This is the narrowcasting of my dreams.

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 12/12/2025

I went to a dinner with the AI Minister and I read a paper on Lovelace Institue --- a proposal from Tony Blair's Institute on how we could fund breakthrough science better. And I wrote that all up into one incoherent mess for you to enjoy. tomforth.co.uk/nationalpurp...

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National purpose on AI.

Lovelace Institutes, why I like the idea, and how I think they could work.

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 09/07/2025

Wrote a paper. Read the paper. Seems okay. You can read it too. The pub is now much fuller than my reading on X. niesr.ac.uk/publications...

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Brits on tour. Makes you proud 🇬🇧

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 23/01/2025

It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

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Why North England is poor.

And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.

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k1956 @k1956.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

From Leeds SUTR: 📣📣 THIS SAT!! Far right groups are coming to Leeds on Sat 23 Nov to whip up racism & try our divide our communities. Join our counter demo. Come out to show them they’re not welcome & celebrate our unity and diversity 🤝 Meet 12pm, outside Leeds Corn Exchange. KEEP SHARING!!!

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A snowy evening at the classic Leeds pub.

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

So it begins our public transport/hike spectacular via Marsden to Shepley.

A mixed group of five people, dressed in hiking gear at a bus stop.

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

100% has to be Paul Chuckle. I was absolutely stoked.

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

We've worked out we can circumnavigate the whole of West Yorkshire hiking between railway lines. This weekend we're going to get the train to Marsden and walk to Shepley to catch the train back to Leeds.

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

It was on this date in 1888 that Louis Le Prince filmed the first ever motion picture in the home of the movies, er, Leeds…

A still from Roundhay Garden Scene, the first moving picture.

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Alex Bateman @iliverightnow.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Some people: cancel culture is a threat to our way of life. The same people: deploy the army to stop a protest I don't like.

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