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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminds of when I was accused of being out of touch because I was part of the elite.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/10/2026

Man City such a good team - will be hard to beat in next season's Championship

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m always surprised to find that my hatred of Trump can rise to new levels.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not perhaps the main point but it bothers me that Richard Tice doesn't appear to know the meaning of the word 'confirm'.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching #Peston and wondering how the claim that knife crime in London has increased by 60 per cent can go unchallenged.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a little thing by me on the importance of teaching legislation and legislative interpretation as a discrete subject (underpinned by despair that in the UK we generally don't teach enough of this in law degrees (never mind how little there is in conversion courses))

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In Support of Teaching Legislation and Legislative Interpretation as a Discrete Subject – Edinburgh Private Law Blog

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OTD in 2020. Fly-by with breakfast

A flying gull holding a starfish in its beak.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Try being a Preston and Lancashire supporter and discover the true meaning of suffering.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Try being a Preston North End and Lancashire cricket supporter and begin to understand real suffering.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 18/09/2026

I mocked this earlier but the hyper intelligent cat historians of the future will pinpoint this as the moment that the very concept of "government" died in the UK.

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This one is worth your time

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All of the thread but especially this.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a Fleetwood supporter who is old enough to remember Percy Robson playing, I can scarcely believe we're in the last 16 of the League Cup. What a pity we can't play Man Utd in the next round. #CodArmy

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Parties told soonest new trial date is 🏛️ March 2027 👩 Wife withdraws support saying it’s all true but it’s been years I can’t wait anymore Can’t cope Need to move on with my life Crown offer no evidence Not Guilty verdicts recorded

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 15/09/2026

🚨 Rapes (marital) alleged to have occurred 2022-2023. Reported • 2023 Police ABE • 2023 Husband IV’d • Oct 23 + Jan 24 Charged • Jan 2025 Crown Court • April 2025 Trial fixed 🏛️ July 2026 🏛️ All parties ready. Trial withdrawn at last minute - lack of court space 📆

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just heard that my daughter-in-law beat Andy Burnham's Great North Run time by 12 minutes. Constitutionally speaking, I'm pretty sure that makes her the new PM for 12 minutes. It'll be a hell of a ride.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last Sunday at the Globe, with Southbank buzzing. This Sunday at Rincon de la Victoria - sun, feria and sardines. It's hard to believe that European civilization is on the brink of collapse

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The review is a delight

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 02/09/2026

You should consider the possibility that "man, the stuff I got up to at Reading!" and "THERE IS NO WAY SHE IS GOING TO READING ALONE!" are not uncorrelated.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am amazed that my son and his uni-age daughters think this is normal. I am over 70 and would feel oppressed if it was my wife following me!

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

But the way she said 'according to Home Office figures ' was a bit 'believe it if you like '. A shameful imbalance anyway.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Exactly the same for me. My suggestion that our choir close with Jolene fell on deaf ears (not tone deaf, just deaf).

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/08/2026

So fun that Meghan is going to be next James Bond

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My sister, who has hundreds of books, recently messaged me to ask if I'd be offended if she disposed of the only book I have ever written as she was having a clear out. I was offended. It sounds like you would have taken it well.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Strange droplets of moisture fell on me. Rarer than eclipses but lasting for a similar length of time.

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Carl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This week has seen the most use of the phrase 'since records began' since records began.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lovely ex tempore event watching the eclipse at our local hillside pub. Maybe 90 people. Pinholes, cereal packets and kind people lending the proper glasses. Nice pint too.

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Scenario-based speculative fiction has been used for more than a century to highlight new military threats, capture the public imagination, and sharpen minds in policy circles. In today's newsletter, I ask why we don't see it used more often in economics. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An egret takes off leaving a trail of drips.

The black legs and dark yellow feet of a white egret leaving a trail of water drips as it takes off from blue water.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Emily Wilson Writing reviews of a film that she's sad to have seen Yells at the screen Picks up her laptop Nolan's pastiche of the epic she worked to translate How does it rate? All the shallow film tropes Where do they all come from? All of Homer's richness Where did it all go wrong?

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Someone should explain to her what coining a phrase means. Hint: it's not using a long established cliche.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My kobo works fine. Not as good as a book, but none of them are. No issues with it at all.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Really enjoyed the Odyssey last night. Probably helped by limited knowledge of Homer. I might have said it was a brilliant film but the last big fight scene was just ridiculous. My wife wasn't too keen, 'just one fight after another' - harsh.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have enormous sympathy with people angry that the political vandalism of our prison system is forcing the (even earlier) release of prisoners. It is a scandal. But deciding who does and does not get released on the basis of the volume of public outcry at their crime is the road to madness.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A long read but well worth the effort

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Am I the only occasional cyclist who, having decided to exercise with my wife after a long hiatus, feels that blowing up the tyres on two bikes is plenty of exercise for one day.

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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I feel this to my bones

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I remember my Dad driving us all there two days after it opened as a special treat.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Laurence Eastham @laurence-eastham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I agree with you but I can't tell you how much I hate the use of the term 'progressives'. It's so smug and yet meaningless. I feel an almost uncontrollable urge to subscribe to the Spectator whenever I read it.

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