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Alex Howarth

@operose.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Written on the 1970s-80s Liberal party, election forecasting. Parent to Nessie the cat.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist
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Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The gaps in reading scores between England and Wales are incredibly stark Average reading scores in Wales are lower than for disadvantaged pupils in England The least disadvantaged group in Wales scores below the average for England @theifs.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com @samfr.bsky.social
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/08/2026
Healey could suffer £4bn headroom hit because of lower immigration forecasts ft.trib.al/4ZNIGuO
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Healey could suffer £4bn headroom hit because of lower immigration forecasts
New chancellor is seeking to reassure investors as he prepares for first Budget in October
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I actually do not get, at all, the instinct that dolls are not worth studying. It does actually strike me as pretty interesting that we have so consistently throughout history made little people and used them as make belief aides. Why would that be even prima facie contemptible or absurd to study?
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Amazing that the Tories' default response to literally anything is to go for xenophobia
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A remarkable essay. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here's the paper - the abstract suggests that students who outsource their homework to AI later do worse on exams (which makes sense!) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Actually using prisons to rehabilitate prisoners is a much better solution to overcrowded prisons than chaotic early releases.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is crime. It's just crime. You can go to prison for just looking at a CSAM image on your computer. Even an "AI-generated" one.
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
🎶 He's the man/the man with the Midas touch🎶
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Nothing like the disrespect of AI-generating an image of the Discworld. Except the failure to check the most basic things, like the turtle having the right number of legs in the right places, or the elephants being on top of the disc instead of underneath, or the disc being a disc not a hemisphere
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I saw a post from the Other Place of a Yank mocking cyclists for being unable to afford cars. Turns out the Yanks can't afford them either.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Lots of people commenting on how unsporting Argentina’s players are, but let’s be fair and remember that they are also very racist.
theguardian.com
French federation files complaint over ‘racist’ song by Argentina players
The French soccer federation pledged to file a complaint with Fifa over ‘racist and discriminatory remarks’ by Argentina players after their Copa América final win
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What I like about this is, let us imagine it were correct for a moment. (It's not but never mind) Sorry, it is in fact good Bergen-Belsen was liberated and good that *all of continental Europe* did not end up being absorbed into the Soviet empire!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The real, damning indictment of this government, the true evidence of failure of leadership, is that the Treasury is still making decisions and projections using forecasts that assume the Home Office changes will not happen for them to work. That is why Starmer must go.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Once again the Guardian coming out in favour of hormone treatments for everyone except trans people.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Not just bonuses for ICE! The article mentions she was taken to a GEO private prison. Lobbyists for private prison companies give $$$$ to politicians, esp. in the GOP - and they get paid per inmate and per day! So the more people locked up - even tourist grandmas - the more profits! #ThisIsAmerica
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
India need Yadav to face as many balls as possible in this last five overs - they probably only need to go at 10s to put up a very solid score but real risk of a total collapse to 120-130 all out if he goes #T20WC #INDvUSA
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
And that's how Rinku got out there - through the shot early, didn't get any kind of real contact there. Hardik really has to bat (at least) the next six overs. 150 is probably a winning score though!
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Looks like it's very difficult to time the ball on this Wankhede pitch - still back India from here because of the power they have behind them and the skills they have in their attack #T20WC #INDvUSA
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Starmer does politics in the same way I play chess. I do not mean this as a compliment.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. “Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This, I think, is one of the scarier points - it's not just about what AL can/can't do (I won't say that's trivial!) but more about *our perceptions* of agency and responsibility, which are being challenged in a very new way
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I know the Telegraph has been off the deep end for a while but their headlines have been *something else* recently
Screenshot of a Telegraph headline 'Rights of asylum seekers trump the people of Epping, Home Office argues'
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
better luck next time yanks xx
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Excellent piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on the need to address the "legitimate concerns" of many British people - about the growth of open racism and ethnonationalism in the British political class and media. www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
easterneye.biz
Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored?
'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Same
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
(Rachael Maskell has a hard-line anti-abortion stance that ought to disqualify her from membership of the labour party anyway, btw)
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Now do Dr Helmut Marko
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
TIL I have at least ten times as many friends as the average american
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
why are all these media outlets calling him Mark Carney, rather that his real name, Not Mervyn King?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
he’s right and he’s right to say it
Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
July 2017: Corbyn urges May to support self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017... Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017... Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 13/04/2025
happy ten year anniversary to this post
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trumpism in one country very much seeing off the Musk idea of exporting the movement here!
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
THE ACCESS IS ALREADY UNLAWFUL Passing a law saying that: (a) adds no options for enforcement; (b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and, (c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The US President who claims to be so concerned about drug trafficking is the same US President who, on his first day in office, pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
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Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by thousands of drug dealers and others to conduct over $200 million worth of illicit sales using bitcoin.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television
independent.co.uk
Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television
Exclusive: 2025 marks the final year of the BBC and ITV’s joint agreement in the United Kingdom, with subscription channel TNT Sports confirming that they were exploring the possibility of a bid
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Update. The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects. However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Allez Les Bleus
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
lmao imagine if biden said that
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reform's 14% views on future UK/EU policy shows mixed & slightly agnostic views of post-Brexit 1/10 for rejoin! 1/5 OK if single market Overlapping views 1/2 (53%) content if closer links outside single market 1/2 OK with where we are now 1/2 (55%) would want more distant links than now
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Love the BBC. Here we have industry fully supportive of the third runway. But maybe its the wrong thing because they might knock down some houses in a village where some random 18 year old lives.
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Alex Howarth @operose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"
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