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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

"Britains immigration officers are helpless. They know that Hitler is dumping his unwanted people here. They cannot stop other Mid-European governments seizing on Britains lethargy to lower their own unemployment figures"

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat

Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, the difference between "join" and "rejoin" really doesn't matter, just as in the past it didn't mater if it was an "association agreement" or a "free trade agreement", and it continues not to matter if the EU is or is not the organisation the UK left. Wood. Trees.

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Survation. @survation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most significant announcements in the speech among those aware of it were the changes to the Triple Lock (mentioned by 50%) and plans for the National Care Service (mentioned by 22%). Read more: www.survation.com/where-will-t... 3/9

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Where will the public land on Andy Burnham’s Triple Lock changes and National Care Service plans? | Survation

Survation conducted an instant reaction poll of 1,548 UK adults yesterday evening to gauge the public’s reaction to Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s speech at the...

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I maybe don't mind us giving commands in natural language, but I don't think that an AI should ever be allowed to answer in a voice that emulates a human, because it's *not*, and it doesn't have the depth and the accountability that goes with a human. It's too seductive, and too easily misleading

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 29/09/2026

Excellent news from Austria! Vienna has become the first capital city to sign Greenpeace's pledge to get cities off gas by 2040, and move to 100% renewables Cites can help get Europe off oil and gas, cutting pollution and people's energy bills at the same time

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Stadt Wien unterzeichnet als erste europäische Hauptstadt Greenpeace-Deklaration für Ausstieg aus Gas

Umweltschutzorganisation begrüßt diesen Schritt und fordert weitere Städte auf, dem Wiener Beispiel zu folgen

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 28/09/2026

Wow. Check out the European numbers on favourable views of the US versus favourable views of China….

Screenshot showing poll of how 36 countries see the US and China. Large majority has a more favourable view of China than the US including most European contries

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Is this the next step in the UK? First blame the EU, then immigrants, and then women???

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨🚨Quite a scoop: A #US based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from #Russia has worked on #EU-backed projects and sold its services to European #lawenforcement agencies. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

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Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies

The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/09/2026

A kilometer of London’s iconic Oxford Street will be pedestrianized next month, the capital’s mayor has said today.

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London’s Oxford Street will be pedestrianized from Oct. 26

The London mayor said a kilometer of the capital city’s road will be traffic free from next month.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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CHEM Trust Europe @chemtrusteurope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🆕 Expert*innen der @echa.europa.eu haben neue Gefahreneinstufungen für mehrere problematische Chemikalien empfohlen – für die PFAS-„Ewigkeitschemikalie“ Trifluoressigsäure #TFA, für #Resorcinol und jüngst auch für #Propylparaben. Mehr in unserem neuen Artikel: 🔗 chemtrust.org/de/neue-gefa...

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EU empfiehlt neue Einstufungen für bedenkliche Chemikalien

Neue Einstufungsempfehlungen für TFA, Resorcinol und Propylparaben: Was das für die Gesetzgebung und für unsere Gesundheit bedeutet

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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Newly-installed walking route to Spalding's only McDonald's. Would the person who signed this off (a Levelling Up money project) like to explain their thoughts?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan.

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Let’s devolve more power to local areas! Let’s reduce media oversight of local government! A problem perhaps?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Putney to Westminster is 19 minutes on the Underground.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI is also going to force changes to anything where the friction is provided by a lengthy application process that can now be largely automated: employment tribunals, job applications, complaints procedures... As we're already seeing.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Let’s devolve more power to local areas! Let’s reduce media oversight of local government! A problem perhaps?

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨 "there seems to be no sense of urgency about anything: about tackling the far right, about protecting liberal norms of governance, about challenging the immigration panic, about improving relations with the EU, or about recalibrating geo-political strategy." @chrisgrey.bsky.social

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Platforms have massively expanded content monetisation features in the last 2 years, with no demonstrable safeguards. Almost anyone can monetise their Meta/X account now, there are thousands of Darrens out there, earning revenue from either antisocial activity or sharing videos of others doing it.

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

‘the ‘good chaps’ theory is dead, having been severely strained by Brexit before, according to Peter Hennessy, the historian most closely associated with articulating it, being killed off by Boris Johnson’s premiership’ chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...

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Lethargy in place of strategy

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“The report also found old electric vehicles stay on the road at double the rate of combustion vehicles: at age 15, the road exit rate for BEVs is 5.4 per cent, compared to 11.9 per cent for petrol vehicles.” thedriven.io/2026/09/24/e...

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Electric cars are more durable than petrol equivalents, and last longer - major report finds

A study of millions of vehicles reveals that EVs are much less likely to fail compared to petrol equivalents, and will last a lot longer.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The proposed ban on non-essential use of PFAS in the EU is being fought by the chemicals industry on a scale, "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." share.google/r69snPliLy5N...

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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation

Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile the fossil fuel obsessives get further & further behind the real world of energy production

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It boils my brain that so many journalists don't have a clue how the benefits system works. Trailer for Tom Swarbrick where he seems completely oblivious to the fact that the DWP already cut benefits for refusing work or other failures to comply with required job searches. #LBC

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

The chemical industry generously distributing its products:

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David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is @ukri.org effectively abandoning what it means to be part of academia. There, humans read things, critique things, and provide feedback, even if it is not the feedback we want. It is symptomatic of the developing horror that is the UK research funding landscape. It's horrendous.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you build it, they will come.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's worth considering how in the emerging social context a dysfunctional academic "publish or perish" model that destroys the time and space needed to allow ideas, concepts, texts to mature properly can still make a useful contribution to intellectual or technological progress

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Shocking story of how the UK's system of controlling environmental pollution is failing:

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/09/2026

How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was

Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

How do you get a single market? By agreeing common regulatory standards. The EU agrees this standards through an evidence-based, democratic, process. But you only get a vote if you are a Member. Pretty simple really, but somehow totally impenetrable for so many in UK!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026

"No one on Bluesky thinks they’re interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along

Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an aside, "Canada's associate membership of the EU means x for the UK" takes suffer rather from the fact that few in Brussels know what this will actually entail but most are pretty sure it won't in any way resemble associate membership.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026

Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5

EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's characteristic of the Brexit debate that, after a decade of arguing about it, the leader of the Conservative Party doesn't appear to know what the single market is & can't be arsed to find out. She seems to have a vague idea it's "a free trade area" that got mixed up with "all the other stuff".

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the same day the Americans are warning that Russia could also target Southern Europe with its drones. The warnings are certainly becoming more public now

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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

The genius of the US healthcare system

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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