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Kieran Lowe

@kieranran.bsky.social
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Work in news and public affairs. Climate change/energy/tech, Pokémon, X-Men & LGBT+ rights. 🏳️‍🌈 retreating from the bad apps

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s always risky reading too much into pre-Budget briefing wars, but this does not sound like an intervention that is well calibrated to deal with the energy crisis we face this winter. The key problem, as ever, is our over reliance on gas, and these measures would do little to change that
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
my 9 albums 💃🏻 (honorary mentions to kate bush - aerial, evanescence - fallen, the killers - hot fuss, haim - days are gone, and dagny - strangers/lovers) www.my9albums.com
album covers of sigur rós - ( ), lady gaga - the fame, dido - life for rent, tracy chapman - tracy chapman, carly rae jepsen - emotion, rammstein - mutter, dua lipa - future nostalgia, MUNA - about u, and the magnetic fields - distant plastic trees
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I thought her theory about the nature of the traitors’ actions was clever but I think the make-up one is interesting for other reasons - she (and Joanne) just can’t conceive something that comes naturally to Leigh-Anne and many others, presumably because they have different relationships to make-up
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Moira Stewart!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No, sorry, I can't (Traitors spoilers)
No, sorry doing your first big TV gig after your dramatic flounce to start your own media empire, spending the first episode littering your discussions with how clever you are and immediately getting kicked out is amazing.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Superb and fascinating chart.
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone I know who has been diagnosed has said they are happier in general and much more content/productive with work since being diagnosed and getting various forms of help based on the diagnosis.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
absolutely agree that the discrepancy between the coverage of Arday and Orr is a gross indictment of the UK’s media - but not sure the best way of demonstrating that is via individual journalists like this? The Orr story was covered more by lobby and politics beat journos who never covered Arday
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
still reeling from last night's meal at an ethiopian restaurant where they refused to provide any injera rolls for ages, forcing us just to stare folornly at the delicious wat after we'd picked off as much as we could of the sides. A hate crime
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The financial case for changing to an electric vehicle has never been more compelling
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rishi Sunak literally boasted during the 2022 leadership election that he took local government funding away from poor areas and redirected it towards nicer areas? Wandsworth literally had a specific carve-out from the grant funding system dating back to the 90s? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Badenoch brings in lawyers after 94% Wandsworth Council tax hike
A row is growing over Wandsworth Council's rise, which the local authority is blaming on government funding cuts.
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Jamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Struggling to think how anyone living or working in a seaside community would even consider doing this to RNLI volunteers aka THEIR OWN NEIGHBOURS WHO WOULD DROP EVERYTHING TO SAVE THEM FROM DROWNING WHEN THE CALL CAME IN
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sarah Pouchin being a white supremacist on TV again
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe it was a mistake for us all to keep asking to hear from Lisa Nandy?
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Legislating for the past: what is retrospective legislation and when is it ok? With particular reference to political donations By me for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/retr...
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Legislating for the past: What is retrospective legislation and when is it ok? | Institute for Government
What is meant by “retrospective” legislation, and can it ever be acceptable?
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
File under: not good. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
disagreeing with Urdu election material is silly. the more interesting question is why Polanski is campaigning in Urdu in a constituency with hardly any Urdu speakers
Census 2021 data on main language in Holborn and St Pancras. Only 156 people listed Urdu as their main language (compared with 3,471  for Bengali, 2,488 for French, 2,153 for Spanish)
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A hollow laugh for the recent Tory-endorsed Onward report on energy, which expects global oil prices to come down to pre-war levels and stay there
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not people celebrating Paul Nowak’s take on excessive political party donations when he was one of the union leaders who told Burnham not to introduce a donation cap and got the Labour Party to rethink their plans… www.politico.eu/article/andy...
politico.eu
‘Step backwards’: Union leader warns Burnham against political donations cap
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said he is concerned about union members’ voices being ‘silenced’
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 13/09/2026
Of course. But we don’t do consequences any more. Not for rich folk, anyway.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate when my algorithm knows I’m going through it before I do
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Margaret Hodge on Morgan McSweeney from her memoir published tomorrow, via my Commons Confidential newsletter
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I took this photo is south London in the middle of August. Everything around the golf course was dead, but somehow they’d kept it green. 🙃 One day I will launch my political party to turn nearly every golf course in the UK into useful land and reclassify golf as a hobby.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/09/2026
There's a lot of focus right now on employers’ plans for AI. But if you're worried about your job being automated, the more proximate threat could be that colleague of yours with a Claude subscription and a manic glint in their eye. www.ft.com/content/ed21...
ft.com
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work
Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 08/09/2026
No political rights. No freedom of expression. No protection from secret detention without access to family, an attorney or a physician. No protection from deportation. Welcome to Russia-occupied Ukraine.
politico.eu
The least free place on earth: Occupied Ukraine  
As discriminatory Russian policies permeate every aspect of residents’ lives here, many wonder what, if anything, Ukrainian will remain.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Time for Andy Burnham to appoint a Culture Secretary.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‘I’m against street fascism is only 7% ahead of I’m for street fascism in Britain’
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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I fully gasped at this Mystique redesign 😍
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The more I think about it, the more the idea of treating couples who live together but choose not to marry like they've entered into a secret stealth marriage is an insult to all relationships - married and non-married alike. This week's New Statesman column www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...
newstatesman.com
Treating cohabiting couples like they're married is a mad idea
A new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they've tied the knot
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