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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
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Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
2) Actually review the impact of the motorway. And where land is no longer beautiful, free it up for development. Because it includes places that are half-way between Heathrow and Gatwick. Vacant fields that would make great European headquarters for global companies.
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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side) #watercolour #fineart #cambridge
St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, watercolour drawing from 1991
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Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Here's our gallery from the Christmas in #Cambridge attraction on Parker's Piece: www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/in-...
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In pictures: Christmas in Cambridge is a winter wonderland
New attractions this year include dodgems and a larger Christmas tipi.
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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thangam Debonnaire bang on re the BBC there. What a shame she lost her seat at the election and not the wholly inadequate to her role Lisa Nandy. #r4today
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The new Caroline Flack documentary on Disney+, which follows her mum, Chris, as she unpicks why her daughter was charged - and why the tabloids tore her to shreds - is full of details that leave you stunned. As much as it’s about how Caroline’s life was wrecked, it’s about how anyone’s could be
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Accidentally stumbled across this in the archive - a devastating satirical swipe at Ed Miliband and Ed Balls's unrealistic 2015 spending pledges through the medium of The Magic Porridge Pot
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The worst budget she could deliver would be one in which income taxes went up by a little and the rest of the revenue raising was stuff like this:
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Reeves plans £2bn Budget raid on UK retirement savings
Move would reduce tax benefits from salary sacrifice pension schemes as chancellor aims to fill fiscal hole
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The crucial bit of this tactical 'only Labour or Reform can win here' VI poll, though, is that Labour and Reform would be tied. Not enough Lib Dem or Green voters are (right now) prepared to tactically vote for Labour to offset the number of Tories willing to tactically vote for Reform.
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
And yet the unquestioning acceptance of the erasure of women and their biology, is apparently ‘impartial’. Ho hum 🙄 Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/11/2025
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth
Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/11/2025
Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"if you don't commission it Sky will"
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/10/2025
Andrew, or to give him his full title, Andrew.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/10/2025
Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/10/2025
“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
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Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/10/2025
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Badenoch is the most compelling of the current party leaders because of the gulf between who she believes herself to be (she visibly thinks she is a bold thinker) and the reality (incredibly lazy and partisan).
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Removing her will be an act of mercy at this point. It's getting unbearable to watch her flail around.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 03/10/2025
You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/09/2025
*I (mostly) like Bluesky*. I want Bluesky to work. But I refuse to join the angry consensus here that the best thing to do is to angrily insist it works and to shout at everyone who says otherwise. It’s like Bluesky is entirely populated by Biden’s old White House comms team, or something.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/09/2025
“While 6,721 stolen bicycles were reported to the Metropolitan police between January and July, just 39 of the incidents have so far resulted in a “positive outcome” — such as someone being charged, prosecuted, or cautioned.” Amazing that the 39 figure includes *cautions*. Good GRIEF.
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You're more likely to win a lottery prize than catch a London bike thief
Plus: Prince Charles Cinema building to be redeveloped but cinema safe for now, King's Cross canine protester, and Preposterous Property of the week.
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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Materialists is *still* pulling in takings weeks & weeks after it's US & international releases Audiences don't have cinema fatigue, they have sequel/franchise fatigue. Give them something original that won't have a sequel or start setting "homework" for a cinematic universe and they will come
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Complete hyperbole. A whole community is not being 'eliminated from society'. Stop whipping up fear. People who identify as trans are legally protected from harassment & discrimination. But males cannot access services provisions & sports for females. Females have rights too.
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Herb @dropthet.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Claire had a "gender affirming" double mastectomy at age 14, as well as other extreme medical interventions as a young child. By age 16 she had already detransitioned.
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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
4th September 2020 A restful glimpse of Tree Court through the Main Gate at Gonville & Caius College. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In general a pretty major problem for social democrats *everywhere* is that broad based tax rises have become so politically toxic that even the left now regularly avoids calling for them in favour of pretending a wealth tax will solve everything
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londonwalker.bsky.social @londonwalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey, let's have a fun dinner tonight!
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Has the feel of an instant folk horror classic ngl www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Video shows felling of Sycamore Gap tree, prosecutors tell jury
Two men deny felling the much-loved tree which had stood on Hadrian's Wall for more than 100 years.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Catching up on reading, this line stood out to me, "Over 1,000 listed European companies worth just over $1 trillion were taken private over the past decade by unlisted companies or private equity firms" Seems like an important trend. Implications?
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Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low" This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵 www.ft.com/content/5cf4...
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Whether the Government or GMC regulates Physician Associates or not it seems GP practices have heeded the warnings PA numbers have started to fall in both GP practices, peak of 916 now 891, Primary Care Networks with a peak of 1153 & now 1089 Less than 2000 & a fall of 89 #TeamGP
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Doctors leaving NHS Workforce Plan is based on importing more Drs than UK trained Drs leaving This means a loss of experience, UK training, understanding of the NHS, knowledge There is nothing wrong with IMGs & without them the NHS would collapse, but the loss of talent is failing us all #Medsky
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Graham @grahamsutton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Large sections of the left have always had a misogyny problem and still do. Dismissing the right of women to define themselves, preserve single sex spaces for safety and dignity is not a progressive cause
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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When they say "trans rights," just substitute "man's rights." And then it all makes sense.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Every sign suggests this UK government will take a couple of steps in the direction of European orientation next month. That's a big but not definitive deal since detailed negotiations will follow allowing time for things to change.
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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay withare English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
As an aside, this must rank as one of the biggest campaigning misfires in all of history. A decade of “no platform”, ostracising, abuse etc to gender-critical feminists in the service of self-ID… has resulted in the law becoming *more* aligned with the GC position.
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Physician Associates can sign off assisted suicides under current bill going thru Parliament. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
NHS associates role could 'costs lives', Oxford study says
Physician associates cannot prescribe medication, but they can conduct physical examinations.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/03/2025
buff.ly/MkR5iCf
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England’s rivers to remain in poor state as EU laws ignored post-Brexit, says watchdog
Government’s failure to match EU measures to improve condition of rivers, lakes and oceans called ‘deeply concerning’
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's precisely this 'there is no alternative' attitude I worry about It believes itself hard-headed and cold but is really a massive gamble and act of faith Like it or not, we need to develop alternatives and we need to plan for US withdrawal
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Will Vincent @willsvincent94.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Wow! Wallace & Gromit winning 2 BAFTAs…that’s pretty amazing! And very deserving as it was a fab movie! 😍 #BAFTAs
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a stuffed seal and a stuffed penguin sit on a chair
Alt: a stuffed seal and a stuffed penguin sit on a chair
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
🇺🇸carefully created an opening for Beijing to present itself as rooting for 🇺🇦and 🇪🇺seat at the table — a seat that is being denied by the Trump Administration. The US presented Wang Yi with the best possible Munich weekend he could have imagined. 🇨🇳delegation must have truly had fun.
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trump's trade wars & "predatory hegemony": how much they threaten Germany and Europe and how we can prepare. My piece for @agendapublica.es agendapublica.es/noticia/1961...
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Trump's trade wars: how much they threaten Germany and Europe and how we can protect ourselves
President Trump's announcement that he will "definitely" impose tariffs similar to those of Canada and Mexico on the EU should "alarm us", according to Thorsten Benner. The expert from the Global Publ...
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Londonopia @londonopia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Thames House: MI5’s HQ  Thames House, a neoclassical behemoth on the north bank of the Thames, has a dual reputation: part historic architecture, part enigma. Located on Millbank, it’s hard to miss with its imposing design and close proximity to the Houses of Parliament. This Grade II-listed…
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Thames House: MI5’s HQ 
Thames House, a neoclassical behemoth on the north bank of the Thames, has a dual reputation: part historic architecture, part enigma. Located on Millbank, it’s hard to miss with its imposing design and close proximity to the Houses of Parliament. This Grade II-listed structure is the headquarters of MI5, the UK’s domestic security service, making it one of the most secure—and secretive—spots in London.
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Sam Bowman @sambowman.co · 20/11/2024
In the spirit of giving this app the old "college try", I've made a Progress Studies starter pack. I'm sure I've missed a lot of people. go.bsky.app/R34NKJv
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