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Pretending the benefits arrangements can override a poor labour market is as foolish as pretending university subject changes can. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 13h

“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone know a simple way to scan the list of papers citing another paper (e.g. from Google Scholar) to see who in the UK has used it?

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Laura James @laurajames.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Some of our F-Secure research is featured in this article about how consumers check (or don't) AI answers www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-use... Check out our full research report around how consumers juggle usefulness and distrust when using AI chatbots: www.f-secure.com/en/partners/...

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AI Chatbots: Distrust, Usefulness, and Everyday Use | F-Secure Research | F‑Secure

F-Secure's 2026 survey of 1,500 UK and US consumers examines how people use AI chatbots despite lingering doubts about accuracy and privacy, why most stop short of verifying answers, and whether secur...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This beauty was a couple of weeks ago.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Labour's (and indeed many "independent commentators") inability to trace the roots of our current situation to past actions means we are doomed to keep repeating those foolish actions.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The hard truth is we have implemented every centre-right nostrum, from slashing local government through conditionality of benefits to junking resilience measures for society and the economy - and as many predicted, it all turns out to be very costly in the long run.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 29/09/2026

Mainstream narrative of China shock decimating EU industry may be overblown • Over past decade, China accounted for just one quarter of growth in bloc's extra-EU imports • China's share of EU’s imports has barely moved over past decade, rising from 20.5% to 22.3% www.economist.com/business/202...

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Which of you lot (in the UK) have the technology to digitise reel to reel tapes? (See thread)

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I keep saying, not repairing a bridge imposes a cost on future generations, just not the kind of cost that is immediately visible in the accounting system

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We’re essentially seeing a repatriation of central London assets that were held by international foreigners to UK buyers.” Per @zatapatique.bsky.social this is exactly what many upper middle class Brexiters were voting for - reclaim Kensington from French banker bid www.ft.com/content/f9c1...

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How London became the property market’s black sheep

Capital’s once-relentless property boom has gone into reverse

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'we should be very careful about treating a smaller university sector as an abstract financial adjustment. Its consequences will be felt by students, employers, communities, and regional economies – often in places where the government is simultaneously asking universities to help grow. '

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Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And if you’re wondering why the housebuilding sector needs demand side support, here’s my July 2026 column: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A reminder that it’s going to be a very tall order to reverse the descent of this nation.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In Manchester with a couple more hours than I thought. Any suggestions?

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If this was *any* other community, people would be demanding to know what they are doing about their extremists & holding then responsible by association. In Britain, they are listened to & told their concerns are genuine, whilst the majority congratulate themselves on how civil and kind they are.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The far-right vs RNLI is a reminder that we have let the media and politicians just bow to far-right ideas of what Britain is - and those ideas are not mainstream by any stretch.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I personally blame the aggressive expansion of NATO into Canada for these tensions.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This does not seem good.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A sharp reminder that most of the discourse about NEETs is just a distraction from the reality that as a whole the job market is moribund and we have a lot of underemployment: www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...

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‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job

Readers describe feelings of rejection after submitting hundreds of applications but getting a handful of interviews

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Anthony @anthonyobrien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone here got ride marshal / ride assistant experience or an experienced cyclist and free on Sunday in London?

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What I find striking is her linking this with previous racist movements and not pretending it’s something that’s just spawned from the ether. It’s the same ideas, often the same people, but in racing to legitimise the movement it’s a link that many - e.g. the government, the BBC - cannot make.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

We might once have called her a ‘brave truth-teller’, but as it stands we have reserved that title for bestselling authors, prominent television pundits, salaried columnists and individuals who hold views so tediously predictable they can outsource writing entire books to unthinking machines.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🔴950 people have now taken Democracy for Sale's survey about big money in British politics How worried are you about politics for sale? Should donations be capped? Do take the survey - and share it! thanks 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey

We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...

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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At one point Victoria Derbyshire replies "oh but these arent hard right racists though these are just normal people who live here you're in the minority" 😐

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OH SO NOW YOU’RE IN WORK

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We got a relatively substantial boost to NHS capital investment in the first Labour budget and a year later we saw quite strong productivity growth for the NHS, I have no idea the mechanism through which he thinks spending cuts would achieve the same outcomes

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Deputy speaker Nus Ghani says MPs are taking too long to ask questions to Ed Miliband. Says she will "will cut you off, I will ruin your social media clips"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There’s a basic dishonesty amongst UK economists where they pretend that their flawed cost/benefit analyses have not been fundamental to a culture of “this is inefficient, therefore just cut it.”

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One way to look at this is you only get young people into the system if employers are hiring. So either we need growth, or we need to make retirement more attractive.

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Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fairly flat labour market data but two underpinning & linked challenges. First, job growth esp in sector like retail & hospitality (down 150k in a year) is struggling. International uncertainty won't help. Second, 1m young people are NEET and we need to do more than we are to help them.

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

nandy pulled off the scam of the year lol like imagine pleading for your job all ooh you don’t understand i was blocked from doing what i wanted to do and then going back to snoring in a hammock

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/09/2026

It was never about immigration and only ever about big standard, pedestrian racism. They tried to use pretty words spoken by “academics”, but in the end, it’s nothing more than 1970s bigotry, plain and simple.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Nuclear devastation. A weird beetle like logo from some brewery coming alive in my dreams and chasing me. The white skinhead who would attack me at the local swimming pool. The bunch of white lads who would try to ambush me on the way home from school.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is a grim reading of this, unfortunately: a country achieves those outcomes, but on relatively high-level comparison, has no marked difference in animosity (masked thugs on the streets, increasingly essentialist language in most media and platforms) versus peer countries, then what?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When Broken Veil was the number one podcast on the Apple Charts, we made £24 from it that month. That’s what the paywalls are for: but nobody wants their pod to stay a little private members’ club. That balance is so hard to negotiate. Support creators, anyway.

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