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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...

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I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"very nice, very nice, you know I bought some of them for Marco, they didn't fit but he wore them anyway"

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Never in my life would I imagine purchasing a cinema ticket to watch a youtube video

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Labour should claim England's education triumph as a cross-party success – academies were introduced in 2000 – rather than disowning the Blair/Adonis/Gove legacy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science

OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can always find people desperate to talk the UK down.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 06/09/2026

Must be that Sharia law that Americans keep asking us about. All the rage in woke London apparently.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

FT exclusive: Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles in one of the most significant known transfers of strategic military technology from Moscow to Tehran www.ft.com/content/6cf3...

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Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles

Leaks reveal programme behind one of the most significant known transfers of military technology from Moscow to Tehran

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why Burnham can’t afford to ignore Birmingham – the city’s recovery is a defining test of “reindustrialisation”. Excellent @arguablymag.bsky.social debut by our new Assistant Editor Samuel McIlhagga. www.arguably.uk/p/why-burnha...

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Birmingham is made for Burnhamism

The PM shouldn’t neglect what could be the ideal test case for his policies

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

*New* Mathematician of the Week Posters Here's something I've been working on over the summer. A growing set of posters of mathematicians doing cool things with maths. Each comes in black/white or colour, with a quote and a link to read more. Check them out at: interwovenmaths.com/mathematicians

Collage of 25 posters of mathematicians.

Screenshot of week 1, showing a poster, a quote and a link.

Screenshot of week 14, showing a poster, a quote and a link.

Screenshot of week 12, showing a poster, a quote and a link.

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Iron Maiden Rammstein Metallica AC/DC System of a Down Sabbath Motor head Manowar Dio Judas Priest

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New analysis from me at @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on electoral reform, examining the case for reform, the options we might pursue and why reform efforts failed before (despite twice coming very close to success): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Has the Moment for Electoral Reform at Westminster Finally Arrived?

The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put Westminster electoral reform back on the political agenda. This article examines the case for reforming the voting sy...

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 26/08/2026

Almost 80% of Britain’s rising fiscal costs will come from ageing by 2075, dwarfing the pressures from defence spending, net zero and lower migration. We should rebalance taxes away from work and towards wealth, says @benansell.bsky.social. Read more here: www.ippr.org/articles/tax...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The photo shows the number of air raid alerts in Kyiv over just half a day

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nothing to worry about. Just AI hiding that it cheated

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good reminder that the UK is good at some stuff.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NEW How do you regulate media frenzies? Why the law cannot easily be used to stop mainstream and social media pile-ons By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Similar to stochastic violence or terrorism is the pile-on by those on social media or mainstream media, or both. Here each individual contribution can be justifiable, at least in the view of that contributor. They will see what they have to say as legitimate and, if challenged, they will invariably assert the righteousness of being able to say what they want to say.

But in the aggregate, something quite ferocious, overwhelming and even lethal is created. In the olden days, even great celebrities only had exposure to the public for a limited period. Now with social media and 24-hour news anyone caught up in the news will have constant and relentless exposure from which there is no realistic escape.

And, of course, such unremitting hostility and abuse can have real consequences, sometimes tragic. Recent history shows that those caught up in such media storms may not survive the encounter.

But from a legal perspective there is the difficult question of what exactly is the legal wrong being committed? If each individual contribution is somehow “legitimate” when does the accumulation of those contributions become illegitimate?

This is a question with which the law now has to wrestle. When people came together to live in towns and cities there soon were laws about riots and disorder which meant mobs and mob-rule could be checked. But what can be done in confined physical spaces is less easy on open media platforms. One cannot meaningfully read out the Riot Act to those on social or mainstream media.

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the inspirational content I come to expect from @iandunt.bsky.social (on GCSEs) "That was the worst fucking thing on earth, but there is plenty more terrible shit yet to come" iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hellbo...

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The hellbound horror of GCSEs

Life will never be quite this bad again. Once you've finished GCSEs, the worst part is over.

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Next time we need to end a drought/heatwave we should just arrange a test

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An unhinged post from Mr Bridgen, a former MP. As it happens, the Prime Minister Andy Burnham has not disclosed the precise A-level grades (1988) which secured his undergrad place at Cambridge: (English). Nor has the Home Secretary hers (1998) for securing her undergrad place at Oxford. (Law)

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So much nicer to take up and its not 26 degrees already

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m in the Guardian today explaining why a primary school NEET register is a bad idea.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Water crisis: then vs now. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Powell seems to have changed the emphasis on blaming the NEETs on the Gove reforms www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

First picky bits and now electic cars, what will @mjrobbins.com rant about next, babies?

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Burnham's critics on education are wrong: we cannot keep writing off 1 in 3 children a year. The great strides on academic progress needs to now be matched with the same focus on the 'forgotten third' - with technical and vocational pathways that meet their needs. www.edrith.co.uk/p/burnhams-c...

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Burnham's critics are wrong about his education reforms

We cannot continue to write off 1 in 3 of our children

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I maintain that if Burnham made it legal to confiscate phones from people who watch video or listen to music without headphones, then called a snap election, he could actually increase his majority.

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@greenmirandahere.bsky.social re FE and 5-16 teachers getting different pay. Ive done both they are very different jobs hemce the different pay. That said FE is tragically underfunded.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/07/2026

They should ask how The Post managed to turn its business around using the same strat– excuse me, I’m being handed a note.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of the problems with tinnitus is that I dont know if the buzzing noise is a midge or my own mind

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John Matthews @johnmatthewspi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Absolutely insane numbers. Not going to make a dent into the neets via education without finding a solution to this but would be impossible to roll back.

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's a terrible look for Burnham if Jodrell Bank gets axed in his second week as PM, which is why I don't think it will happen. Keep on making noise.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We seem to have defaulted to formal sanction (job or arrest) for something that should just make people think you’re a tosser.

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