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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Tip-top listening recommendation!

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 07/09/2025

Severe alert handily reminding me that I've only got an hour to get to Waitrose before they shut.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We should try to bridge the gap, instead of picking on each other. Constantly arguing with folks on the same side effectively, (not just on EU-UK relations, but SO many issues) who agree on direction and destination, but suggest a different route or pace, while ACTUAL FASCISM is rising, is daft. 3/3

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 16/08/2025

At least Chamberlain got a piece of paper

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! Special Sunday School is coming to you EARLY - as in, the next hour or so - with @snellarthur.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social looking at the Trump-Putin nothing-burger and implications going forward. xx

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

And that's why they got a London Overground line named after them.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 27/07/2025

FINALLY found time for the first two episodes of Podyssey's new season this WE. Unsurprisingly, it continues the insightful excellence of what came before, peppered with beautifully chosen music/extracts. The crucial distinction given between 'authentic' and 'honest' needs wider exposure, I feel!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Aesop -> Frasier -> Il Trovatore -> Trump -> Slavery -> Revolution -> Regional language -> Golden Girls -> Forrest Gump -> Velazquez -> Zulu -> Sheherazade -> Populism -> Individualism -> New Testament -> Agatha Christie -> Egalitarianism -> Mirroring -> Collective Consciousness -> Memento -> Japan

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Who doesn't love anything that starts with a dolphin and a seagull going at it? Glorious!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A brilliant summary of 2025. Someone who doesn't live in London telling someone who does live in London to google London, for proof that it is, in fact, a dystopian hellscape. Something I can disprove by walking to the local bakery, or taking the tube every day, or just... looking out the window. 🤌🏽

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/07/2025

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

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The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 18/07/2025

Here's something very beautiful for the new Cherry Mint Koala single, out on my Bandcamp and streaming platforms today. The fluidity and energy of these two dancers (Isobel Staddon & Antony Dearlove) is mesmerising. 🤩 #newrelease #newmusic 🎧 youtu.be/eipm2z2jD4w

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Waldstein Fantasia Pt. 2 by Cherry Mint Koala / choreographic video by Tierney Lawlor

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

No-one is paying attention. No-one gives a damn. But one man is valiantly trying to make Labour stick by its manifesto commitment on constitutional reform. Tomorrow, we find out if he's succeeded. iandunt.substack.com/p/this-wedne...

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This Wednesday: The last best hope for Lords reform

No-one is paying attention. No-one gives a damn. But one man is valiantly trying to make Labour stick by its manifesto commitment.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I found @samfr.bsky.social's piece so interesting that I wrote a sort of companion piece on the role played by The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social in this radicalisation. Sam doesn't mention it in his piece but I think it's an important part of the story. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

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Radicalisation and The Spectator

An analysis of the normalisation of racist language on the British right is incomplete without taking note of the role played by the leading political weekly

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is a subject I have yearned for people to take seriously. I can’t imagine a better person to do that than @samfr.bsky.social

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 05/07/2025

Bingeing the very fine #strongmessagehere series on R4. Revealing insight from Sara Pascoe who once had to share a dressing room with Nigel Farage for a 2016 pre-ref event. She was introduced to him as a comedian, and the door shut. Farage's first words to her? 'I don't find comedy funny.'

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23/06/2025

It is perfectly acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘and.’ And it’s equally acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘but’ or ‘or.’

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Very few broke ranks - @rolandmcs.bsky.social is a very honourable exception - and so, I'm sorry, but Hannan does not just deserve ridicule. What he, Owen Paterson, and many others of that ilk did to our country deserves condemnation and utter contempt. 8/8

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 24/06/2025

And once you've read Roland's substack piece, read this response to it from Chris Grey for useful added perspective. #Brexit

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 24/06/2025

Accurate histories are vital. Not least for recognising when certain political players attempt to rewrite the past. One neatly put sentence in this excellent piece particularly caught my attention: 'In short, the Leave movement had radicalised itself throughout the campaign.' #Brexit

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/06/2025

And they have the nerve to describe this plan to rob everyone and give to the rich as a "Robin Hood" policy. ~AA

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

For what the situation in Iran might mean for its people, and for the U.K. and Cyprus, have a listen to Arthur Snell on today’s Quiet Riot 🎧👇 open.spotify.com/episode/346K...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 22/06/2025

'In the aftermath of Trump striking Iran, the chances of the Islamic Republic surviving seems slim.' A timely and well-informed read. #Iran

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#RecipeOfTheDay is Strapatsada! Whether you eat these special scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch or supper is entirely up to you: they’re good at absolutely any time. With thanks to @sturdyalex.bsky.social for showing me the way! www.nigella.com/recipes/stra...

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Strapatsada

This is a Greek recipe — actually, strictly speaking, it's Italian, or of Italian derivation: strapazzare meaning, in the context of eggs, "to scramble". And really that's what this is: eggs scrambled...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

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Judgement Day for the EHRC

How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 23/05/2025

Mozart gets a mint makeover! One of his most earwormy tunes taken on a musical adventure ride by my classical-ish trio Cherry Mint Koala. With playful visuals. 😎 Out today via Bandcamp and streaming platforms. Upcoming album 'Connections Drawn'. #newmusic #musicsky 🎧🎵 youtu.be/Q3WPtaLkRj8

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A Series of Unnecessary Variations on the Rondo 'Alla Turca' performed by Cherry Mint Koala

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 10/05/2025

Whose curse is it anyway? Another superb exploration in this wonderful series, reaching far beyond simplistic assumptions and framing. Ideal WE downtime food for thought.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/05/2025

Posted this earlier, posting it again, my blog post of ten years ago today in which I was depressingly and painfully prescient. I don't know why so few other people saw it coming. To me it was as plain as could be that we'd end up here if we elected Cameron. ottocr.at/treat-7-may-...

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Treat 7 May as EU referendum day

The general election on 7 May 2015 will quite possibly be the most important election during my lifetime (so far – nearly half a century, folks). If you thought 1997 was a biggie (and for my genera…

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 07/05/2025

A new daily commute addiction has arrived.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/05/2025

Why do we have company law in the UK when no one enforces it? Right now, companies can break the law with near total impunity — and society pays the price. By @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

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Why don’t we punish people who break company law?

It is ridiculously easy to create a company, and company law is there to protect us. But nobody is policing it. Why not?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform accused of seeking ban on flying Ukrainian flags over council buildings

Hard-right party says only St George’s and union jack flags to be permitted on or in its English council properties

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 06/05/2025

'US bases in mainland Europe have largely been closed down... Their orders, pretty much from Nov, were pack everything up and shred all the documents... Everything's in crates, just sitting on tarmac waiting to be loaded somewhere.' Sobering insight in this frank discussion. Also, reasons to hope.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 03/05/2025

If you have a Lab MP, please consider highlighting this graph to them (or the figures it contains). Anthony's summary is spot on: confront populism, don't accommodate it. My MP is @yuanfenyang.bsky.social

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 03/05/2025

Already looking forward to Farage's next blame game cycle when he is shocked to discover that managing council budgets is a thankless and nightmarish responsibility after years of vicious austerity and rising social care costs, and that removing the 'woke' stuff doesn't save very much.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 03/05/2025

Curious how the number of Ref seat gains (677) almost exactly match the Con losses (676). Meanwhile, LibDem & Green combined gains (208) almost exactly match Lab & Ind combined losses (206). I mean, I know it's not that simple, but the neatness is striking.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 02/05/2025

Where is the incentive right now from Labour to encourage left/centre voters who are not tribally loyal, esp knowing the gov have a massive majority? There's plenty to be dismayed abt. And more broadly, voters know very well how to protest vote at by-elections under FPTP.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 01/05/2025

Such a thorough and welcome piece of analysis. Toward the end Ian highlights the potential for further dire consequences of the political cowardice we have seen to date (re the ECHR and Cons/Ref campaigning to leave it) which ought to give any Labour MP pause for thought.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There are several lessons from Canada for UK politics The biggest, most obvious lesson is likely to be widely ignored in the UK media by Saturday morning! Don't think you could predict & project a 2029 General Election result from the polls 2025/2026. It would be difficult in 2027/2028!

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.

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Mark Northfield @marknorthfield.com · 29/04/2025

If only someone in the Trump administration could have told him that insulting and threatening neighbours and allies would lead to outcomes he would really not want. Personality cults, eh?

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/04/2025

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

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