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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One way to deter secret recording would be to stop manufacturing pervert glasses

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

origin story. Effing autocorrec: ‘Smart phone’ is another term worthy of closer inspection

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a good Original Story podcast (Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynsey) on how the term ‘Think tank’ has come to cover a range of quite different bodies.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"The face in the mirror is growing old and grey / We fade to grey."

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a very brave post. I admire you, but not the dress sense of your earlier self. I would never do a similar post for my 7 followers

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

would it be very bad to say I found the eclipse a little anticlimactic?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Has anyone heard from Lord Browne recently? Was this all in the plan?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New post on substack. Can't work out how to stop it putting the picture of that old fellah above the link. Will consult daughters in future jlefsghost.substack.com/p/lets-make-...

jlefsghost.substack.com

Let's make it harder to buy government

The party could be over for First Past the Post if we take our chance

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not getting much traction on a busy news day, sad face emoji

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Paperback out today! “reminds us why Hill … still matters.… Hill’s determination to understand the past as a means to shape a better future remains profoundly relevant” Ryan Breeden, Bullet “[Braddick] writes with rare lucidity and grace” Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They seem to play a kind of anti-football until someone scores against them, park the bus and needle. Really an unattractive side, except when the could have scored 5 against England in 30 mins. i wish they would play

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is it intended to keep people in the stadium entertained during a long succession of ad breaks? I wish ITV was covering the football not the music

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If Farage is putting his honesty to a public test shouldn’t he lay all the information before them? Or is the test ‘Nigel’s financial affairs are not my business?’

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Who is the person to his left, edging nervously away?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's a simple point: you shouldn't use the resources of the state for party political advantage. Its strange that the current regime should not see the seriousness of that.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

All true, surely. If the left and left of centre had more confidence it would going for the kill now—Reform must begin to get ‘its a busted flush’ coverage soon, and Badenoch has done her best to make the Tories look like Reform. It really could be a dominant left of centre coalition for years

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Wierdly though, I bet the media line will still be 'bad night for Starmer'

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I once read a review that said someone had 'filled a much-needed gap in the literature'.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Watford fans remember his headed goal in the final more clearly.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I thought I led quite a quiet life until I read this

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A friend of mine asked me today 'what should a labour voter in Makerfield do if they support Starmer?'. Vote Green? The whole thing is mad

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I agree. Terms longer than electoral cycle, but not for life. I can't see the point of a second elected chamber--what would it add to the first? I think there is a legitimate role for a second chamber in helping improve legislation on the basis of expertise, respecting the primacy of the Commons.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The next step is to separate the honours system--giving gongs to your mates, patrons or those holding Kompromat over you--from lifetime membership of the second house of the legislature. The latter a matter of technical competence rather than political acceptability or leverage.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It’ll do you good to go north. It’s so far not even the Northern Line goes there

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

After extensive googling I found out that there are at least 29 million residential addresses in the UK and around 800,000 named streets.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I agree. Would be an interesting story how 'Open Access' came to mean this, and the the power of commercial publishers relative to the Universities in the negotiation of what it would look like. I'd like to understand how it happened, anyway.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Where would Jesus stand on Bruce Springsteen?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yes, it's both a paper tiger and completely funded by US in his opinion.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The advantage now is that is not 'remoaning', but a clearly sensible response to US foreign policy shift? He can take us for granted, those of us who always thought this, but this approach will now bring sensible others on board? Reform and Tories are at sea on this

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am hopeful this is a re-set. It seems common sense, surely, and not 'remoaning'. Trump wants satellites not allies. Europe an alternative to great power politics of Trump, Putin and Xi

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I posted some thoughts about Trump's current enthusiasm for self-memorialisation here substack.com/@mikebraddic...

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some thoughts on Trump, memorials and posterity open.substack.com/pub/jlefsgho...

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Memorialising Trump

Making Donald Great Hereafter

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Are podcasters the people best equipped to talk about introversion?

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Here is something else I wrote about how Britain can act in the world, tied to my book A useful history of Britain (Oxford University Press). historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

History Matters - Our Island Story

Michael Braddick | 7 June 2021 ◇ British History | Politics | Sheffield Books

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My friend Ian Dunt posted something I had written today, and it led people to look at this page, so I am trying to up my game.

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You two seem very judgy about people who don't like long hair

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Mike Braddick @mikebraddick.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Slightly hurt by this drive-by on academics

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