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James Dickson

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan
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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But yo, give it a read. Can AI do maths without mathematicians? rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/can-ai-re...
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Can AI replace mathematicians? Vienna researchers weigh in
In September, OpenAI announced that some 10,000 AI agents partially 'solved' the Navier–Stokes problem, one of the most prestigious open challenges in mathematics. University of Vienna mathematicians ...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hence why for the UK to achieve its aims in Brussels, whether that be on Made in Europe or even rejoin, it would need to be all over the Brussels bubble debate, well-informed, bringing positive ideas, arranging events, generally being positive. encompass-europe.com/comment/how-...
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How to achieve UK aims in Brussels
(a companion piece to everything Brussels really thinks about the UK) There are 27 countries present and permanently negotiating almost every policy area in Brussels. These are the member…
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Getting the UK back into the EU is no longer just about winning the arguments of 2016. It is about anticipating and decisively shifting the Overton Window around where the arguments will be about membership in the 2030s.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Median voter clamouring for lower immigration then getting exactly that along with all the economic consequences thereof: oh I am very annoyed at someone else right now
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The EU would be well advised to ignore the self-aggrandising big man mania of the Tony Blairs of this world and just focus on getting the basics right of securing its economy, democracy and defence ip-quarterly.com/en/why-europ...
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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Melbourne sure if you like mid coffee” would be my Wellington response
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"What if a competent team of professionals tried to solve problems in line with their genuinely humane values?" is the motivating question behind some of the most beloved science fiction of the twentieth century, yet its rarely emulated.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This FT article just filled with the craziest numbers. US short 6x uk peak electricity demand by 2028 of the chip orders/datacenter build implies by bank forecasts happen.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can have all those things and no collapse, or bad stuff happens that doesn't amount to a full-blown collapse, but those are the general preconditions: long-term structural factors, a series of solvable crises, and people making decisions who shouldn't be in that position. /fin
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going forward, the US National Science Foundation research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and Earth sciences is $110 million per year. Trump's illegal war with Iran cost the Department of Defense (i.e., the American taxpayers) $38 billion in the first 5 months, or $220 million per day.
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Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran
CBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The key reason why we need to talk about Britain's relationship with Europe is usually not mentioned - which is that so many UK political objectives starting with growth and defence have an EU dimension. And thus there is a permanent negotiation.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 10/09/2026
Today is the 4th anniversary of the liberation of Izium. Back then, authorities uncovered mass graves where Russia had buried 447 bodies: mostly civilians, 215 women, 194 men & 5 children, as well as 22 Ukrainian soldiers. A sight I will never forget. That was my report👇 www.dw.com/en/ukraine-w...
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Ukraine: Izium bodies show signs of torture and execution
Over 400 people are being recovered from shallow graves outside the town of Izium, Ukraine. DW's Emmanuelle Chaze visited the horrific scene and spoke to investigators, who believe war crimes took pla...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's still no easy answers for growth or living standards, but whatever governments do has to consider the international along with the domestic, and the policy priorities as a whole. And I think that also provides a far better answer against the populists.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you want to contradict academic or scientific consensus you absolutely can! That's how it works. But you need to come in with high quality real research, and the onus is on you to show your work. Not on the field to engage with every half-baked garbage idea to repeatedly refute it
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 24/08/2026
🧵I've noticed a growing number of takes saying Zelensky "doesn't want to hold elections." Once again, this framing turns a legal constraint into a matter of personal choice. It makes the story about what Zelensky supposedly wants, rather than what is legally possible under martial law. 1/
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James Dickson @jamesdkiwi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Horrific behaviour.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don't deny the Arday resignation is important news, but to have it as the top item on the Guardian, Times and Telegraph websites says something about the weight they all give to culture wars over substantive news on politics, the economy, the environment, international conflict etc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There has been little mention of the 72 people who drowned or were crushed trying to reach Ceuta last week. A shocking figure that's been eclipsed by right wing press fear mongering. The incident and how it started is now coming under welcome scrutiny www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets
People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1. Almost no one who stormed into Ceuta in the last days will get into the EU. 2. Hysteria in the wider EU over Ceuta will blow over. 3. The row over securing Ceuta will remain a political hot potato between PSOE, PP and Vox. 4. The bigger loser from this mess will be Morocco
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Colby like many other American leaders and analysts is fundamentally Cakeist in assuming that the United States can sustain the same level of authority it had in Europe during the Cold War while contributing far less to European security
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thanks to @kevinmilligan.bsky.social et al for this study on the impact of universal childcare on women's income - Long run impact on women's earnings far beyond the childcare years - Increased tax remittances, reduced social insurance - Recoups 75-117% of program costs www.nber.org/papers/w35514
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is a chasm between the European political view of the modern economy and its reality, leading to a vicious circle of promises that simply cannot be met. Not to say there aren't many issues with the current situation, just not these. ecipe.org/publications...
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The WhatsApp World Order: Learning to Live with the New Global Political Economy
An inter-connectivity and technology revolution transformed the world over the last 30 years - with AI being the latest instalment. Multiple, interlocking, instant networks now cover the world like an
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James Dickson @jamesdkiwi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The other question here would be what actual problem is being solved by extending 'no access to public funds' to ILR holders
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):
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The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?
An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026
Oh now Thiel is talking about the "reproducibility crisis" in science, amazing Wait these guys are all myna birds, aren't they. They hear a few words said by someone else and they just grab them and repeat them without understanding. Now I see why they love LLMs so much.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I think this chart from @andrewgoodwin.bsky.social at Oxford Economics cuts to the heart of UK fiscal policy - whatever the chat about market vibes, who's gonna be chancellor etc Basically the UK economy is not expected to grow quickly enough to outrun its debt costs (with only Italy in same boat).
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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer is unironically the closest gov to just ending immigration the UK will have for a long, long while I'm betting right now all my savings that Farage will let in statistically more people in but nobody will care because he'll very publicly deport 20 guys to Pitcairn and say slurs
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And indeed did, at length.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
These trends in terms of Central and Eastern European economic development were in quantitative and qualitative terms already visible from space by 2016 yet universally ignored in Brexit debates
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026
There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 09/06/2026
Global CO2 emissions have plateaued since 2013, leading to a slower growth in atmospheric CO2 than would have otherwise been the case. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I've taken look at what would have happened if emissions had continued to grow: www.theclimatebrink....
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 01/06/2026
It's really worth scrutinising the way the aesthetics of Britishness themselves are a way of pacifying doubts among the listeners about a man's character and ideas
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's so striking how much conservative ideology rests entirely on lies. You can look up which books are getting assigned in colleges! The idea that higher education has a "disdain for Western civilization" is laughable.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sure but they‘re really stupid questions
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