Reposted by Adam RamshawAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service 231387
Reposted by Adam RamshawGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech... 12913
Reposted by Adam RamshawOnalith @onalith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Perfect way to make a whole galaxy feel small because everything revolves around 5 people. 11682
Reposted by Adam RamshawIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 2641598
Reposted by Adam RamshawStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The threshold raise was a complete disasterclass by the 2010 Liberal Democrats: it narrowed the tax base, they got no credit for it in government, why on earth would you want to do it again when the public realm and the public finances are in a worse state? 89411
Reposted by Adam RamshawJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632391
Reposted by Adam RamshawStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery. 76825121
Reposted by Adam RamshawRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"There’s a puritanical streak lurking beneath our 'freedom-loving' national identity, a soul-crushing voice whining 'I don’t want to so you mustn’t'. And that voice isn’t limited to London." www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...newstatesman.comDrinking in Soho is a fundamental freedomA bitter minority of fun haters are ruining our society 0333
Reposted by Adam RamshawSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026New post: Young people are increasingly unhappy. It's a real phenomenon + nothing to do with "snowflakes". There are lots of standard culprits - social media, school, economy - but none can explain the long-term trend. So what is going on? (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-agency...samf.substack.comThe Agency GapWhy are young people increasingly unhappy? 5823578
Adam Ramshaw @ramshaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hoots, hollas, and high fives welcome from anyone watching the Great North Run today. Keep an eye out for me cantering round. 000
Reposted by Adam RamshawSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A good source told me yesterday that the Tories are convinced there's going to be a summer 2027 election and are working to that timetable... 4914535
Reposted by Adam RamshawRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI 531278313
Reposted by Adam RamshawPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world. 416840
Reposted by Adam RamshawRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Less than one in three believed London was a net contributor to public finances, even though it pays more tax than it receives back — one of only two UK regions to run a fiscal surplus." Fascinating polling here on how the rest of the country views London www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...thetimes.comSadiq Khan hits out at ‘plastic patriots’ doing London downMayor says groups are spreading disinformation that is leading the public to overestimate the level of crime in the capital 33612
Reposted by Adam RamshawJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Unsolicited writing advice, no. 128: To write, you need to read - widely and with passion and curiosity. Doing one without the other is like expecting a cook not to be interested in eating. 1027036
Reposted by Adam RamshawKieran - North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Job done - the project can finish now! I've added an entry on the Tyne Bridge - no explanation really needed. Link below. 1102
Reposted by Adam RamshawHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am sorry, I may have said this before, but there really are moments when British politics are astonishingly naive, and I really think this may have something to do with the fact that the British have not experienced occupation, tyranny, displacemen within living memory. 24569132
Reposted by Adam RamshawJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Times. Explicitly and deliberately, as a matter of editorial policy, promoting violent racist thugs. 37691247
Reposted by Adam RamshawLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by Adam RamshawDave @davedaveson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“I propose that I use what's left of the treasury to move to a more prosperous party and run for leader. And, once elected, I will send for the rest of you.” 0218
Reposted by Adam Ramshawsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 03/09/20268yo: how much will you get paid to write your book Me: uh, I don't know. Authors are paid in royalties so each time someone buys the book they get like $2 8yo: that seems like a bad deal Me: I dunno, what if my book sells a million copies? How much would I make? 8yo: well that's not gonna happen 702774257
Reposted by Adam RamshawSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this) 1151463523
Reposted by Adam RamshawSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Keir Starmer (11 years, 2015-26) will have shortest MP career of any 20th century PM: 4 months as backbencher, 5 years on frontbench + 4 years as Leader of Opposition + 2 years PM www.camdennewjournal.co.uk%2Farticl… 4249
Reposted by Adam RamshawSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Agree and reading Starmer's statement it's infuriating how his sense of moral superiority has stayed intact despite everything. 3342450
Reposted by Adam RamshawRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy. 26035401064
Reposted by Adam RamshawBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.comeuronews.comCycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprintIf everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint. 741775695
Reposted by Adam RamshawChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is manifestly untrue 2425471
Reposted by Adam RamshawMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed. 121038222
Reposted by Adam RamshawJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 08/08/2026If you ever doubt we’re in the banter timeline, remember that “a strong Binface vote” really appeared in a newspaper 1175
Reposted by Adam RamshawNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026#20sPlenty "There is a six to eight per cent reduction in casualties for every 1mph reduction in speed. Anything that brings down speed is a positive.” #PublicHealth www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...thetimes.comHow the 20mph speed limit is taking over British citiesWith a third of roads now having the limit, driving offences are up while deaths have continued to fall. Plus: seven tips to make sticking to the rules easier 917452
Reposted by Adam RamshawPolitical Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Many of the benefits of fiscal devolution that are held out in the recent spate of proposals are questionable, argues @marksandford.bsky.social There are two stronger alternative rationales for fiscal devolution. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-pe... 013
Reposted by Adam RamshawThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Once, for amusement, pasted a chunk of Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’ into docs, and was told it was full of errors and needed re-writing. 221116
Reposted by Adam RamshawFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/08/2026The standard explanation for Britain’s declining graduate wage premium is that higher education expanded too fast and too far. But similar expansions elsewhere have not produced the same outcome, writes John Burn-Murdoch. ft.trib.al/smljhw9 43512
Reposted by Adam RamshawRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This comes courtesy of the Soho Society, a resident group established in 1972 aimed at “preserving the character of Soho”. Which they want to do by banning the centuries-old concept of the pub, and not (you'll be shocked to hear) the historically accurate option of increasing street prostitution 513112
Reposted by Adam RamshawThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... 18833245
Reposted by Adam RamshawPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...democracyforsale.substack.comInside Britain's university crisisAs teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter 24555319
Reposted by Adam RamshawSpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The most brilliant piece of academic plagiarism I ever cam across was now many decades ago. A doctoral candidate lifted his thesis from two long articles in the Juridical Review from more than 50 years earler. Why is that clever? /1 2125
Reposted by Adam RamshawDan Deakins @dandeakins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Mathieu emptying himself to obliteration is the single best thing in cycling 37911
Reposted by Adam RamshawBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026On that sleep schedule that made Anthony Eden approve an invasion of Egypt 515720
Reposted by Adam RamshawProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Somebody on LinkedIn made the point that because they don't stop people parking on pavements, it's actually about 100% of councils who allow it 57317
Reposted by Adam RamshawMark A Stutt @forestedmark.bsky.social · 21/07/2026David Squires for @theguardian.com 05115
Reposted by Adam RamshawSolve the School Run @solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This insanely out-of-touch government advice for kids on how to cross the road safely would be laughable if it weren't for the 443 children injured on London's roads each year. 59445
Reposted by Adam RamshawDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Which is more important to the UK, steel or universities? bsky.app/profile/plas... 75915
Reposted by Adam RamshawJacob Whitehead @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Tadej Pogacar is back in yellow again; his dominance become routine. The world champion's prowess on these shorter climbs is unsurprising — the Tourmalet on Thursday will be challengers' true test of form. With @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social:nytimes.comTour de France stage three: Tadej Pogacar powers to his 22nd Tour stage win and takes yellow jersey (Gift Article)Analysis of stage three of the 2026 Tour de France, a 196km route from Granollers in Spain across the border to Les Angles in France 042
Reposted by Adam RamshawHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Disagree with him, call him v. unrealistic or indeed opportunistic. Fine. But at least this may help start a conversation about the world *as it is now* and with which Lisa Nandy may wish to catch up. "We settled this 10 years ago” is not very convincing at a time of seismic geopolitical change. 1119116
Reposted by Adam RamshawNorthumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Law & Society Research Group was pleased to welcome Professor David Cantor (@rli-sas.bsky.social) for a talk on "Refugee Law-Making, State Sovereignty and the Paradox of Non-Independent Territories" today! A big thank you to David for visiting Northumbria Law School and sharing his research! 042