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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, Trump is the reason right? The person in charge is visibly the root cause of a range of these issues in a way that GWB wasn’t in 2008.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look, I’m biased obviously but this is v. good
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Late response on this, but this is excellent. Morally the right thing to do and a way to rebuild trust with progressives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I guess we're still not ready to acknowledge that Breaking Bad was the dramatic equivalent of junkfood, huh
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Incredible that anyone would seriously argue that Breaking Bad is better than The Wire. Also, absurd to claim that almost all the best TV of the century so far is American and/or English language.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whilst this is interesting, I think it needs to be taken with a big pinch of salt. I suspect the impacts of tactical voting and an actual campaign will influence the result of the next election a lot. However, v. clear that FPTP is going to create massive chaos whenever the next election is.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s incredible that after a summer where we have truly begun to see the devastating effects of climate change that big sections of the “sensible” media class have decided that it’s time to abandon net zero. It’s imperative that we ignore them.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The idea that the perpetrators of these attacks have “legitimate concerns” is so obviously insane. Their concerns are not legitimate. Their methods are criminal. This is fairly straightforwardly terrorism. Non-far right groups have been branded such for far less than this.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Salacious pics to drive clicks. Disapproving/gross objectifying article to justify running the pics v. much secondary/optional.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So the far right group shutting down infrastructure is, a) uniformed and, b) being paid for their time? Would be great if Parliament had thought about whether this should be legal before... www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8an...
legislation.gov.uk
Public Order Act 1936
An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of military or similar character; and to make further provision f...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The focus on *misinformation* after the terrible Southport murders did risk the unwitting inference that the mob should have found a church with Rwandan parishioners instead, or that the mob attack would have been justified if the perpetrator had been a co-religionist of those at the mosque.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very difficult to not get the sense that there are two tiers of policing in the UK when you compare the treatment of climate protesters vs neo-fascists
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...
progressivejudaism.org.uk
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive Judaism
As we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Media presenters in UK may have skewed perceptions of balamce of Jewish opinion towards Israeli govt. Centre of gravity aligns with Miliband (attached to Israel & critical of Netanyahu). Varies by faith/denomination & politics: many cons & mainstream orthodox disapprove Netanyahu govt too. See IJPR
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As a non-practising Jew, I find this line of questioning utterly abhorrent. I also fully support Miliband's position. Jews are not a homogeneous bloc and should not be treated as such, it's dehumanising.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My legitimate concern is that this world leading success story of multicultural integration is being usurped by racist hoodlums and thugs who want to tear it all down, and many in power think that's just dandy.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Strongly agree. The only addition I'd have is that, given what we *know* happened in the 1930s it feels undeniably worse to not stand up to these parties now than it was then.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I struggle to explain what is going on w/o turning to the idea of reactionary centrism. So many commentators treat: - Left and right wing actors as being equally extreme, when they demonstrably are not - Right wing views as authentic and left wing views as childish
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ngl, I am increasingly cranky about what seems to be a complete lack of rigour, curiosity, depth of thought across many domains of public life in Britain today. What is going on with far right disorder raises really fundamental questions for the state and society, but nobody seems interested.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The EC not doing much to undermine the claim made by James Orr that they are “useless”. Also, further evidence for my theory that poor enforcement is one of the major problems in the UK.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am very tired of being labelled as a traitor for people who hate this country and who are working, consciously or not, to undermine it.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Share a thought tonight for James Johnson, who will for once not have to motivatedly reason his way to why a poll-related news story is positive for the Tories, but won't be able to share that insight.
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/09/2026
This scandal also reflects very badly on JL Partners -- who are supposed to be British Polling Council members -- but who ran a poll for Reform paid for by a third party, then did not reveal who their client was.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Consistently baffling that we used to have 1st class stamps that meant that things would arrive the next day and now it doesn't mean that? There's now also additional categories above 1st class which also, interestingly, don't guarantee that something will arrive the next day.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think the disjuncture between what Democrats said about Trump in 2024 (i.e. "he's a threat to democracy") just did not match how they actually treated him post January 6th was a major problem for them. You can't just say this stuff is bad, you have to actually demonstrate it through your actions!
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The @thequietus.com monthly playlist is consistently excellent. Only three tracks into the August playlist and it's 3/3 bangers, all in completely different genres. One of the best value subscriptions on the internet imo.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌍🔥 Natural disasters are becoming an increasingly expensive reality. Analysis estimates the world could now face around $450bn in losses from natural disasters in a typical year, with only just over a third expected to be covered by insurance. The cost of inaction is getting harder to ignore. 🌱
businessgreen.com
Report: World should now expect $450bn a year in losses from natural disasters
Increase in severity of storms, floods, wildfires and more - as well as rising property values and insurance costs - spurs surge in modelled losses from natural catastrophes in a given year, according...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More than 40,000 heat-related deaths were recorded in England between 1988 and 2025. New ONS figures show that the proportion of heat-associated deaths has been rising over time, and the data doesn't even include this summer's extreme temperatures.
theguardian.com
‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025
ONS data shows rising toll of climate crisis, with officials warning this summer on track to set further records
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Summer 2026 hottest ever for UK 5 warmest UK summers on record are:   2026: 16.5°C 2025: 16.1°C  2018: 15.7°C  2006: 15.7°C  2003: 15.7°C 1976 summer relegated to 7th on list as climate change makes previously unthinkably hot summers the norm www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
metoffice.gov.uk
Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK
The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This whole piece is further evidence, imo, that the biggest problem in the UK currently is our inability to enforce *current* laws. The Renter's Rights Act should sort so many of these issues, but if it's not enforced then guess what, it won't do!
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i do think it reveals something (bad) about ex-PMs characters when they can’t countenance being in parliament without the big job
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
V. interesting piece that prompted a thought. What is the cost to the economy of *not* enforcing legislation? It’s not just that it enables law breaking but that it actively disadvantages those who do follow the law. @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk wrote something about this years ago on dodgy sweet shops.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Instructive about the ways in which news organisations have failed to recognise what has been going on for the past decade and a half
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The house buying process in the UK is so appallingly awful. Huge expenses at every stage and in return for them you get terrible, slow service and documents that aren’t worth the metaphorical paper they are printed on.
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There's all sorts of views/ideas that aren't "banned" from academic enquiry but which will probably lose you a job in academia if you say them. Do you see many flat earthers getting jobs in the astronomy department?
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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I *hate* stuff like this. Really don’t like the idea that being Jewish and opposed to Israel’s actions in Gaza makes you a “traitor”. Completely antisemitic - I’d expect a retraction of this imminently.
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