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Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social · 15h

Timely. This was just delivered in the las hour:

Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am I alone in thinking use of the C word carries more than an undertone of misogyny …it’s an insult favoured by the likes of Boris Johnson …I don’t hear women saying it …

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had thought Andy Burnham had promised to fix social care…now it seems he is only offering a “vision” to be implemented at some indeterminate date beyond the 2029 election …and the politicians wonder why they have lost the trust of voters…

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27/09/2026

Everyone is twelve 🙄

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tony Blair’s think-tank offers political access to $25,000-a-year corporate members. Blair selling access …nothing new there …

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear Mr Putin I write so you are in no doubt that Britain is ensuring our armed forces can respond robustly to Russian aggression. Do not be misled by our cancellation of training for our reserve forces in order to save money. Our resolve is undimmed. Yours Wes Streeting, UK Defence Secretary

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One day everyone is going to realise that Heathrow is never, ever, going to have a third runway and at last begin a useful discussion about Britain's airports.. www.ft.com/content/0206...

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So what's going to be in Andy Burnham's much promoted 10-year plan? Adviser: "Everything! All the promises he is slowly accepting that he can't keep".

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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who to believe? A politician with a long track record of being wrong or actual experts in the subject? It’s a tricky one.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Times & Telegraph can't help themselves, but if in some small way, a poll that shows Reform falling behind nudges the editorial team at the ostensibly neutral BBC into giving them a proportionate amount of (i.e. less) airtime, it'll have done something useful.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last year vast screeds were written predicting Nigel Farages effortless match into no 10 …now forests are being felled for the pundits to explain Britain is heading for a Lab Lib pact in 2029 …political commentary used to be half serious .

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Much better if everyone just shut up about these voter intention polls

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

British Museum boasting that if you have a timed slot for Bayeux it will now only make you wait for an additional hour or so before hustling you through …

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After the shallowness of 0dysseus the brilliance of De Gaulle …vive la France!

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations, Annette. That's fantastic!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/09/2026

Good idea - we all trust the US, after all

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seems only yesterday that all those pundits obsessed by opinion polls were previewing Farage’s stroll into No 10

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BBC: Mr Davey are the Lib Dems sleepwalking to irrelevance under you leadership? Davey: No BBC headline: "Davey denies he is sleepwalking his party to irrelevance" So much for BBC impartiality.

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Alan B. Goode @albgoode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Same here on Thursday evening. Got the 5-6pm slot, got in at 6.10 to be told they were turning the lights off at 6.20. Farcical.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait 18 months. Book a trip to Bayeux. Walk into the exhibition without any queue. Browse at your leisure. Take as long as you need.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing makes me think the King behaved well after the death of princess Diana but it does strike me there could be no more thoroughly obnoxious and self serving a witness as Charles Spenser …

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 20/09/2026

I’m afraid this is par for the course for the BM. Their entry process is always an absolute shitshow. Timed tickets mean nothing. It’s ridiculous. Perhaps you could call George Osborne and ask him to sort it out?!

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Plus Bayeux is a lovely town with two other wonderful musea, a total treat.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Three hour wait and then 30 mins being hounded to move along by British Museum attendants is really not the way to appreciate the Bayeux tapestry ….

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We’re all Stephen Watkins.

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Catherine Colonna @ccolonna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lucidité, optimisme, volontarisme. Quel plaisir d’écouter le discours du Premier ministre du Canada au Parlement européen! 🇨🇦😃

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Strange just how many of the Blair/Brown era Labour politicians and advisers have decided they will do absolutely anything for money....

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m still struggling to understand why the government didn’t simplify accept Pudlington’s UDI and put a fence around it with appropriate border controls and lmmigration requirements

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it remains fascinating that google, regularly purveyor of the world's best AI, insists on putting its worst model in front of exactly the people who are hardest to convince AI can help them

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“And so what started out as a small table in the newspaper every month has essentially become a biddable political actor in its own right, and there is a cosy symbiotic relationship between the people who conduct the polls, the people who pay for the polls and the people who publish the polls.” 👇

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Tracey @0jazz0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Exactly this. I'm so sick of seeing bloody polls. They've done enough damage.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder what the local vicar and Piddington church goers make of all this, what with being the guardians of morality, compassion and all the other goodness in the human condition...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dignity in life after politics. A ranking of living former PMs in descending order 1 John Major Gordon Brown 3 Theresa May 4 Rishi Sunak ………… 5 David Cameron 6 Liz Truss 7 Boris Johnson 8. Tony Blair Keir Starmer too early to rank …

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Bonnie Greer, "What can we learn from Donald Trump? Nothing" Fiona Bruce interrupts, "Bonnie, I just want to point out that maybe half of the audience are applauding" Bonnie Greer, "If I can just carry on" Fiona Bruce, "Of course" #BBCQT

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wearily predictable. Westminster media tires of gushing about new regime and Burnham discovers that there is more to being PM than crowd pleasing on TikTok. How long before Starmer is rehabilitated?

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Crypto billionaires: “We want you to back our businesses and we can give you loads of money” Farage: “Why don’t I promote your business first and you give me the money afterwards” Crypto billionaires and Farage : “Then we can all say there is no connection”

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Says the author of the austerity programme that handed victory to the Brexiters …shameless

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