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Kath fowler

@kathfow.bsky.social
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From Bolton , used to teach then worked in pharma (mi &pm). Now gran to 3, gardener , quilter , cook, music and theatre when time. Read lots

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The PCR positivity map is out. Adjusted national positivity in England is up to 9.3%. We're still waiting for this week's Scottish data. I'll update the thread when it's out. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's as if Andy Burnham had been injected with a truth drug. Brexit has done more harm than good, so let's try other options. Triple lock has to go, social care will be reformed if it kills us, double or quits...it's absolutely working in the hall, in the emotion of the moment. But outside it?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to ERA5 global sea surface temperatures have set a new all time record. This is likely the warmest sea surface temperatures have been in at least the last 125,000 years. What’s more concerning is this will likely rise further in the coming months.
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this is important to add
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I suspect there's something to this (by @iandunt.bsky.social: iandunt.substack.com/p/clacton-by...)
Why? Because Farage is no Trump. The Reform leader does not posses that ineffable blood-magic, the link between leader and follower, that Trump enjoys. He can secure the support of between a fifth to a quarter of voters, absolutely. But he cannot convince enough Brits to submit their conscience and their independence of thought to his will.

I don’t think this is Farage’s fault. He is really very effective as a political communicator. I think the reason he struggles is because Brits are not Americans. We are basically incapable of sincerity. We are averse to idealism, positive or negative. We do not do religion, and therefore lack a pattern of behaviour in which we relinquish our minds to a spiritual leader. The whole muscle-memory of evangelism, from pulpit bashers to TV preachers, means nothing to us. We do not have a pattern of historic racial politics which slots political debates into a pre-existing us-vs-them narrative.

We are too cynical, too jaded, too keen to mock. These are usually ugly qualities. They prevent us from having serious political discussions and reduce politics to a permanent state of listless pragmatism. But in this particular area it is actually quite healthy. It’s really very difficult to imagine any figure who is able to do here what Trump does in the US.

That’s not to say we’re immune to populism or the extreme right. We absolutely demonstrably are not. But we may be immune to the unquestioning hero-worship and epistemological collapse that we see across the Atlantic. This was a test case for that type of politics. It showed that there was some support for it in his support base, but none outside of it.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some fine detective work here
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thanks Adam. Good lesson on T here. theconversation.com/more-testost...
theconversation.com
More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/07/2026
oh so a while back I used to run these fun interviews with MPs for Parliament's in-house magazine - did one with John Healey, which I really enjoyed at the time, and you may like also: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Haaland is Pure Class,not just as a Player but as a Person.Former teammates at B.Dortmund Erling Haaland has said the only thing that surprises him about the "unbelievable" Jude Bellingham is the amount of criticism he receives -- insisting the England midfielder is "one of the best in the world."
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 12/07/2026
The CDC stopped monitoring the parasite now linked to widespread outbreaks of severe diarrhea across the country about a year ago. Surveillance of Cyclospora, Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia was also discontinued.
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 08/07/2026
Already banned at nursery!
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 27/06/2026
🚨 China just became the first country in history to surpass 4 TW of installed electricity capacity. • 4.01 TW total capacity • 62% non-fossil • 61% renewable • ~1.5% nuclear • 32% coal (down from 61% in 2010) China's electricity system is now roughly 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined.
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Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Current civil servants: Can you help improve UK policy-making? ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/please-sha... (Please repost if you are followed by civil servants.)
ukcivilservant.substack.com
Please Share your Experience of Practical Policy Making
Many of you may remember my Substack from June last year introducing Dr Laura Hilger’s fascinating research on social policy design practice in Whitehall.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Máirtín Ó Loċlainn @mr--mo.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026
Something else you might have missed then, 47 subpoenas, just because…. www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/06/t...
Clipping from Boston herald, BBC have submitted 47 supeonas against Trump.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Kath fowler @kathfow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is very interesting - the detail behind the story from actual experts. Sobering too.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:
eos.org
Trump Administration to Remove Hundreds of Deep-Ocean Observation Instruments, Dismantling $368 Million Program - Eos
The Trump administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun dismantling the infrastructure of a $368 million deep-ocean observing program critical to monitoring marine ecosystems, global cu...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine. But of course that's a 'good' invasion. So there is silence.
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Charles Apple @charlesapple.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
From last year and, happily, some of these problems being fixed. (The heat pump one and the tourist taxes)
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Outstanding by the good people of Inverclyde 👏
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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm quite sure there is plenty of footage of the British Army doing good things all around the world. Something people could be proud of and support without question. That the Conservatives choose the murder of civilians as their expression of pride says more about them than anything else.
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Me & Taylor @vespalien.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And they sacked the competent one. 🤷‍♂️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Someone has actually done this on Google 😂😂👏
The location of the Strait of Hormuz on google with the opening hours shown at Mon-Fri 9.30am - 4pm
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It's amazing that RFK is not the most insane person in the US cabinet. Perhaps not even top three. nypost.com/2026/04/15/u...
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RFK Jr. once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to ‘study later’ while on a family road trip
The bizarre account was unearthed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a wide range of sources including private …
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Funny how someone whose entire public persona is built on being a genius dealmaker is so consistently incompetent at getting deals done in the real world.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“Apparently every one's a winner…”
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 01/04/2026
satire/news:
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I have to post thus! Israel is the first state in history to legislate a death sentence that applies only to one ethnic group. There's a reason nobody has ever done this. It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.ft.com/content/a225... Idiotic. Clyburn, Grassley, Sanders, Biden, Trump. Men born in the 1930s and 40s have no business running things in the 2020s.
ft.com
Democrat Jim Clyburn to seek 18th term in Congress at age 85
Re-election bid comes as critics say the US political system has become a gerontocracy
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you haven’t watched this before, you really should. The brilliant Dr. Carl Sagan testifying before the United States Congress in 1985 on #ClimateChange. We should have listened then. Will we now? Remember, climate change isn’t an on & off switch. It’s an exponential dial. We’re making it worse.
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
YouTube video by carlsagandotcom
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Watching some CNN in a hotel. The channel delivers news about Trump's latest words within the normal frame of those words being rational and deserving of analysis. Mind you, most news orgs do this. There is obvs no rationality here but viewing it through that news org frame awards it with some.
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Kath fowler @kathfow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Really interesting by Ian dunt on normalisation of trump
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Crikey. Read this (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...) for more detail
Graph showing decline in healthy life expectancy in the UK.
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