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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very pleased to share this special issue of Critical Quarterly on "The Art of Failure -- Disruption, Loss, Decline", edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Joseph Rosenberg. 4 of 6 essays are open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

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Gregory Davis @gregorydavishnh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fantastic research from my colleague @dlhnh.bsky.social here, blowing a secret plan wide open and naming the key nazis behind it.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This looks good. And if you miss the bargain, full price is still cheap.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fortress being the English word for Kremlin.

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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 24/09/2026

BREAKING 🚨: 100% of Barnsley nursery workers back move to strike vote over pension threat 💪💪 Outsourced company Limetree wants to slash their pensions and remove death in service payment 🙅

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mock mock mock, she thinks deceased people are working people. I, otoh, think that inheritance tax is paid by dead people. Not sure who comes out best.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is from the newsletter which has done most to uncover what's going on.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good analysis, important distinctions.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The BBC's Chris Mason says Farage failed to turn up to his own political wedding. What scrambled weirdness is this? Who is the other party? What do they feel about being jilted? What will be the consequences of this last minute breach of contract. So many questions.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fascinating and vital points about democracy & media. "It has taken years for me to even roughly understand the labyrinthine public-private web of finances in the Tees Valley"

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JenOnTheMove 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 26/07/2026

This bus stop is very recently rebuilt and TfGM seem to have forgot that someone in a wheelchair may want to use it.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Quite a few posters on here are sharing an identical message to this one. I have responded many times, but it is vital we are accurate in our commentary.

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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🚫"It's always been a melting pot round here." Kay's grandparents fought off Moseley's fascists in Cable Street 90 years ago. Her message to the far right today? "You didn't win then. And you ain't gonna win now!"

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So you end up sleeping rough instead. After all of that, you end up on the streets... Of the 4,978 people sleeping rough on London's streets last year with a known last settled accommodation, the MOST COMMON reason for being homeless was being GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS. 9/

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Political commentators don't seem to know what's happening with Farage. Suspect that means there's new developments that he knows of and they don't. Yet. Sounds fun.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Gonna have an anniversary Gonna be a bicentennial Feels like yesterday. Almost.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not sure I've seen enough praise and admiration for @stephenkb.bsky.social for foreseeing today's change of government to the exact day. Ages ago. Just wish I could afford an FT subscription.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bath, UK, 1933

Photo of a delivery rider giving a lift in his basket to a lady in distress in a flooded street.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In late January 2024 Josh Simons was very pleased with a report he commissioned. "Incredibly useful'. Two years later he switched to being shocked by the report—"deeply distressed and furious". What happened in between? Journalism. By @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale. Vital.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

...to fund a lavish lifestyle he craved but could not afford I know it's all part of the fun for police to issue cliched statements. But do journalists need to write them down and put them in headlines? Can't we have some original thoughts & insights? Or even vary the cliches a bit. Please.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

What kind of democrats are these people? Very glad Democracy for Sale is following this. Worth supporting.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026

NEW: The judge has weighed in on the $1.7 slush fund. I promised an update when she did. Please share widely.

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 19/05/2026

Since 2010 the number of UK billionaires has doubled. If wealth trickles down, then why aren't we all richer?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I don't begrudge money spent on democracy. But it's irritating that Reform drains scarce resources with waste-of-space candidates who resign once elected. Do they think by-elections grow on trees?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“If Jeffrey Epstein had been English, we may well have never known about his crimes,” says one former newsroom editor. Shocking to see so many people actively lobbying against vital journalistic freedoms and core human rights. And apparently succeeding.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wonder if McSweeney's gone to no. 10 to help with the shredding.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Monorail vélocipédique ca. mid-1800s

Illustration featuring a bearded man in an overcoat riding on a contraption with two wheels that's resting on a rail that's situated on a wooden fence. It appears the man uses foot treadles attached by belt to the larger wheel in the front to propel the contraption, with him on it, forward.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just reading rules for the Farage investigation. It's explicit that the commissioner cannot investigate -donations to political parties -things purely related to an MP's private and personal life So the Commissioner has already decided the £5m doesn't fall into either category. Interesting.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Excellent to see Democracy for Sale's investigation into Labour Together on this list. Thanks again for great reporting to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Khadija Sharife.

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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 13/05/2026

probably a bit broader than what you're looking for but there's this one: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

At lunchtime today the BBC's chief political correspondent wrote "Downing Street will be delighted. There was a threat of a leadership contest and it has gone." Do we just have to get used to this level of insight?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It would be good if people here, and at news organisations, were clear what they're saying when they report a councillor has been suspended. From what by whom?

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Neil Scott Gordon @drneilscottgordon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Daniel Trilling’s new book is well worth a read 👏

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We cannot continue to be the policeman of the world. Instead, we'll be the world's Keystone Cops.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's great to glimpse behind Prospect's paywall. Thank you. But it does seem to have a proofing problem. And, for me, it really does undermine trust. If you can't get the words right, how can we trust the reporting? This by @tom-clark.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...

Paragraph from Prospect magazine in which "by why Starmer" appears when "but why Starmer" was probably intended.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The public relations firm APCO Worldwide has been reported to the Serious Fraud Office after ordering the destruction of crucial evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against senior UK journalists. Story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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Labour Together PR firm tried to destroy crucial evidence

Controversial firm reported to Serious Fraud Office after senior executive ordered deletion of evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against journalists

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I have attended the sentencing of John Ashby today, which will be featured in an article being published by The New York Times next week Before then I wanted to clarify some confusing reporting I've seen. The rape was religiously motivated by hostility against Muslims, although the victim was Sikh

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Trump still cannot agree the conditions of this unconditional surrender.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Starmer is cross that no one told him of Mandelson's Epstein links. Sometime the focus will change to the misconduct in public office. Once sub judice is out of the way, there'll be a lot more things that Starmer never know about his colleague. That high-energy indignation won't easily brush away.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Among Reform UK’s biggest donors is the Crypto billionaire Ben Delo, who was handed a fawning spread in the Telegraph this week to explain why he is giving £4m to the party. What is buried in the piece that Delo is a convicted criminal who pled guilty to violating money laundering law in the US

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The ‘Money Launderers Dream’: Who Is Really Bankrolling Nigel Farage?

Why are crypto billionaires, tax-avoiding media organisations and the employees of foreign oligarchs really putting their money into Reform UK?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fascinating, important and, in a properly run world, shocking. Excellent reporting.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?

Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

got my @ucu.org.uk fighting fund payment this morning so thank you to all colleagues who pay into that, it does make a difference! Solidarity!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Yes, and I suspect part of this is to stop people like us looking at whats being blown up.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh wow our campaign to Take Big Money Out of British Politics with @38degrees.bsky.social now has more than 100,000 signatures! Can we make it even more to show government this needs to happen? Do sign and share the petition if you haven't already! thanks 😊 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics

British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

UK economy failed to grow in January ahead of Iran war. Neoliberalism has failed. Need new economic strategy. Redistribute income/wealth. Too many struggling. Profiteering pushing people into poverty. Nationalise essentials. Govt to invest directly in infrastructure, new industries.

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UK economy failed to grow in January ahead of Iran war

Analysts had been expecting 0.2% growth for the UK economy at the beginning of the year.

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