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America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 17h

🚨 New report out today Thirteen years' worth of inflation in the past five has left households £2,900 worse off Read the analysis 👇️ buff.ly/QbGKuKU ‎

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James Smith, Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation, said:

“Having experienced 13 years’ worth of inflation over the past five, families across the country are struggling with the cost of living. Unfortunately, help is needed just when the public finances leave less room than ever to provide it.

“While the hit to incomes from rising prices has been felt right across the board, the hardship has not been equally shared. It is poorer families who have cut back hardest on heating and are falling behind fastest on essential bills, and conflict in the Middle East is set to keep energy prices high.

“The Government can't borrow its way out of this, and repeating the expensive blanket support of 2022 isn't an option. Any new help must be squarely targeted at the poorer families facing the greatest hardship – starting with their energy bills.”

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why no one is having kids / the UK is hostile to everyone via stupidly complex regulation: We have just got our childcare offer for 30 hours free childcare, and it *increases* what we pay vs having no free childcare. There is a slight quirk in there but it's privatisation at play, basically.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h

Expect more culture war antics from an AfD/BSW populist coalition government that has no coherent answers to the labour shortages, overstretched public services in rural areas, fragile position of local manufacturers and other economic challenges facing Sachsen Anhalt

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump seems genuinely to believe that anything you import makes you poorer

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

This is pretty close to corporate manslaughter imo

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

With the constant drumbeat of far right complaints about immigration, it's easy to forget that there are other movements out there demanding social and political change. Here it is less visible - for now - but in France, Germany and Spain there is evidence of left revival

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching England purr like this makes me wish they could play that semifinal again

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a very Nicola Murray kind of answer

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Re the debate on the cliff edge where tax-free childcare is lost at £100k leading to people keeping their income below this amount, it’s obvious that such cliff edges are bad as it skews decisions about work – no-one should be worse off if their earnings increase. /1 🧵

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New from @cjayanetti.bsky.social in our Burnham's Britain series, fifteen years after Dilnot called adult social care "not fit for purpose", reform still hasn't come. As Andy Burnham and Louise Casey try again, we trace three decades of false starts.

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Death tax, dementia tax, no tax at all: Why England hasn’t fixed social care

Fifteen years after Dilnot called adult care "not fit for purpose", reform still hasn't come. As Andy Burnham and Louise Casey try again, Chaminda Jayanetti traces three decades of false starts.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

French police have to be the most violent in Western Europe. Where else does this happen so regularly?

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of people suddenly discovering that internal party democracy moves in mysterious ways

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The main point of this fiasco is that a lot of the pro-Palestinian space has been increasingly overrun by completely insane people who are simultaneously totally ineffective and politically loathsome.

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sánchez calls elections for November 29. Odds strongly against him but history suggests it would be unwise to write off the great survivor of Spanish politics entirely. The timing is typically canny: seizing moment where the national conversation has turned from migration to housing.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Someone doesn’t want Zack Polanski to win the Holborn by election, and it turns out it’s his own party

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, but. Couple of things are different this time. First Rejoin becomes the hope/change option, Stay the status quo, at a time where if anything the mood is even more negative in the country. Second, what is there to lose? Worse case scenario, we stay as we are, it can’t get any worse

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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María de la Ohlala @menchubasquero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No sabía q en 2003 Disneyland Paris pidió a la familia de Luis Buñuel poner una calle a su nombre y el hijo les contestó q ok pero q quería 10 millones de € y q la calle se llamara «Boulevard Luis Buñuel-Me cago en Dios y el fascista de Walt Disney». Pero qué puta maravilla es esta. Os dejo la carta

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with the ‘just for the price of a cup of coffee’ line for paid content is that… I already spent that money on coffee

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.

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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News

As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Late to this but Burnham really did whack that out of the park didn’t he. Hope he delivers but that’s a very good start

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:

The Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)

Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATION

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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Terrorists” ringing the police does sound a bit Four Lions, doesn’t it.

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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can a consensus-driven system deliver radical change? 🏛️ New in German Politics, @dustinvoss.bsky.social uses Germany’s 1999 repeal of capital gains tax to argue organised capitalism can both drag out and provide political capital to enact reforms. Read more👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

lse.ac.uk

In bed with the banks? Organised capitalism, institutional bricoleurs, and the role of agency in German financial market reform

Can political systems built on consensus and veto points deliver radical change?

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case people are not fully across the Fairford story: What appears to have happened is that five men from London went to a small country village in the middle of the night to siphon fuel for resale. In small country villages, people notice things, especially at 1am. A farmer called the police.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

All for this but my feeling is the parking issue has improved hugely with the creation of more dedicated bays. On my last trip yesterday the only inconsiderate parking I noticed was the car parked over the cycle lane that forced me onto the pavement

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah so you use AI and AI then steals your idea! Might be a beneficial constraint?

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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hoy, los jóvenes que acampan en la Puerta del Sol contra los desahucios han ondeado la bandera republicana. Muy grandes.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

To get this straight - the police have released them on bail while the US administration continues to insist it’s an Iran-sponsored terrorist attack?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My Critical Geopolitics seminar tonight is revisiting this 2020 book by @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @dhnexon.net. Both its theory & its Trump analysis still resonate. But we're much further along the unravelling road they describe. I understand there's a second edition in the works.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/09/2026

The countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

When the median voter thinks something that makes them better off makes them worse off, that’s a recipe for some very bad politics

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

The democratic doomloop™️ in action

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Britain Remade @britainremade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How did we spend 1/4 of a billion pounds on the Botley Road bridge? For all the issues around Victorian flood defences and the muddle of accountable bodies, we must see the bigger picture of it costing too much to build anything in Britain, @samdumitriu.bsky.social tells BBC Radio 4's PM.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

That looks like a really safe way of doing it

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