Reposted by Kieran LoweEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 17365471917
Reposted by Kieran LoweIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Obviously 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. 27552127
Reposted by Kieran LoweAndrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’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 thattheguardian.comChancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy billsExclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers 1147
Reposted by Kieran LoweAlex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel like more people should be talking about this part 3850342099
Reposted by Kieran LoweYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What 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. 625451
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026my 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 040
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I 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 061
Reposted by Kieran LoweTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No, sorry, I can't (Traitors spoilers) 3372
Reposted by Kieran LoweMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up 141993132
Reposted by Kieran LoweSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026should 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 231635450
Reposted by Kieran LoweGavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post. 34720154
Reposted by Kieran LoweDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Superb and fascinating chart. 87521
Reposted by Kieran LoweBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Everyone 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. 114723
Reposted by Kieran Lowejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter 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” 640106111977
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026absolutely 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 110
Reposted by Kieran LoweMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/20266% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/... 74822170
Reposted by Kieran LoweJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I 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. 651940446
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026still 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 000
Reposted by Kieran LoweAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026Called 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... 212605749
Reposted by Kieran LoweDan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The financial case for changing to an electric vehicle has never been more compelling 1127
Reposted by Kieran LoweTyron @tyron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Rishi 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.ukBadenoch brings in lawyers after 94% Wandsworth Council tax hikeA row is growing over Wandsworth Council's rise, which the local authority is blaming on government funding cuts. 2257
Reposted by Kieran LoweJamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Struggling 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 121352
Reposted by Kieran LoweAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This 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.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052362447
Reposted by Kieran LoweLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not 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.  329252975777
Reposted by Kieran LoweSteve 🏳️🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sarah Pouchin being a white supremacist on TV again 43913
Reposted by Kieran LoweTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Maybe it was a mistake for us all to keep asking to hear from Lisa Nandy? 422621
Reposted by Kieran LoweJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721801538
Reposted by Kieran LoweJonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Legislating 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.ukLegislating for the past: What is retrospective legislation and when is it ok? | Institute for GovernmentWhat is meant by “retrospective” legislation, and can it ever be acceptable? 84116
Reposted by Kieran LoweDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026File under: not good. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 511235
Reposted by Kieran LoweOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026disagreeing 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 4632575
Reposted by Kieran LoweJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A 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 46713
Reposted by Kieran Lowemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness 425059888
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not 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 capPaul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said he is concerned about union members’ voices being ‘silenced’ 140
Reposted by Kieran LoweAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your 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. 5953726513395
Reposted by Kieran LoweRob 🏳️🌈 @rotster.net · 13/09/2026Of course. But we don’t do consequences any more. Not for rich folk, anyway. 164
Reposted by Kieran LoweOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I hate when my algorithm knows I’m going through it before I do 219229
Reposted by Kieran LoweWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians 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. 601452378
Reposted by Kieran LoweJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Margaret Hodge on Morgan McSweeney from her memoir published tomorrow, via my Commons Confidential newsletter 0147
Reposted by Kieran LoweAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews. 391309767718
Reposted by Kieran LowePatrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking. 45501192
Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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. 040
Reposted by Kieran LoweSarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/09/2026There'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.comAI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workBoundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture 55721
Reposted by Kieran LoweGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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 232742734
Reposted by Kieran LowePOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 08/09/2026No 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.euThe 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. 44133
Reposted by Kieran LoweStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Time for Andy Burnham to appoint a Culture Secretary. 1749189
Reposted by Kieran LowePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026‘I’m against street fascism is only 7% ahead of I’m for street fascism in Britain’ 2520650
Reposted by Kieran LoweRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The 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.comTreating cohabiting couples like they're married is a mad ideaA new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they've tied the knot 1815720