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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Labour needs to stop treating its large core vote in London as a weakness rather than a strength. Few remember now but the Tories used to lead in London under Thatcher/Major. Changing that is *a political success*.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs? Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found. Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister? Our weekend read - by @joshih.bsky.social manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...

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Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it

Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Most of governing is picking losers. So idea that no-one can ever lose out is pretty fatal for good governance. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/03/2026

well I went to watch Kind Hearts And Coronets for the first time tonight and 75 years' worth of critics and cinemagoers absolutely had it right, it *is* just fantastic

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.

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Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says

Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

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The 'Great Noticing' Era

Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I am hardly a natural Rayner cheerleader, but genuinely furious that she's gone. Laurie Magnus's verdict confirms she acted on advice, she just missed the disclaimer saying she should get extra advice. Not just an honest mistake - a mistake literally anyone could make. There but for the grace etc...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/08/2025

The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA

Three screens showing stressed out medical staff, "MIGRATION CRISIS" and an inflatable vessel full of people.

Same three screens as before but the middle one now shows "immigration has been falling".

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/08/2025

Whatever your politics "Labour right the ship, Reform falls back, and they get a fairly comfortable second term" would be a great outcome for sending those currently tweet-wanking about civil war even more mad.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor:

I was quoted in your publication:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/

Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies.

"They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said.

The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution.
However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Feels like a bit of a narrative violation that Britain's HDI only overtook Canada and the US in the past 10 years. I'd guess driven by life expectancy?

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16/05/2025

MASSIVE legal verdict just in for festivals in London parks.... Questions over whether Mighty Hoopla and Field Day and can go ahead this month.... residents won legal challenge arguing they need planning permission... implications for all other London parks. www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...

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Mighty Hoopla: Victory for anti-festival campaigners

Plus: The Italian businessman ordered to fill his Mayfair basement with concrete and the messy battle over LTNs in the capital.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Given its mythology in current Labour strategy, you wouldn't think that percentage of people voting BNP in Barking and Dagenham actually went up between 2006 and 2010.

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk, together, en route tonight for Kyiv ⬇️

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch

George Parker and David Sheppard in London and Andres Schipani in New Delhi
Published 13 MINUTES AGO
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been accused by Indian officials of talking
"rubbish" after she denounced the "two tier" tax arrangement at the heart of the UK/India trade deal negotiated by Sir
Keir Starmer.
New Delhi officials insist Badenoch agreed the principle of giving Indian employees in the UK relief from Britain's national insurance levy during her time as business and trade secretary in the last Tory government.
"It's amazing," said one senior Indian official. "It was on the table when she was trade secretary."

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In 1985, Margaret Thatcher's government decided against holding a parade for #VEDay - it was deemed too 'triumphalist' and likely to damage relations with West Germany. /1

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Fascinated by the use of the word 'Eurosceptic' here.

This is a big moment for Reform - and a serious defeat for Labour
published at 06:05
06:05

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

Reform's success in the Runcorn by-election is a big moment for the party.

In winning 38.7% of the vote, the party has matched the highest share of the vote for any Eurosceptic party in a by-election ever (Heywood and Middleton 2014), other than in the two occasions in 2014 when a defecting Tory MP won in UKIP colours.

Meanwhile, there are only 17 previous by-elections in which a majority as big as the 35% majority Labour enjoyed has been overturned.

It will be difficult for Labour to argue that this was anything other than a serious defeat for the party.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The Telegraph has got it right for once. I was in Riga two years ago. Thinking about Russia feels different from there.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What on earth is the line of thinking behind what makes this news + front line splash? Why is later career as a lawyer/judge of somebody who Starmer had a personal relationship with at some point around 1998 + ending over > 20 years ago relevant? (He got engaged in 2004, married 2008)

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Are we actually going to try to make this in anyway a controversial statement?

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Not being funny but this stuff - along with what Starmer came out with, going beyond what the Supreme Court judgement said - has been an LGBT equivalent of the LBC Gaza interview for Labour. There is a lot of anger over this. It's also not really clear what upside there is for them saying any of it.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Europeans finding out that the Euro is now the reserve currency and they're the economic hegemon

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 27/03/2025

Absolutely glorious local news story that has very little to do with anything it's supposed to be about, Camden New Journal is great. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/why-...

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Why ‘Bishop of St Pancras’ is losing faith in his heating

‘It’s bang, bang, bang, bang... the pipe-banging goes on and on – I haven’t slept for 72 hours’

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"My one burst of public spending increases is being funded by a tax increase that falls particularly hard on people-intensive workplaces. Oh and coincidenced with settling long running industrial disputes, increasing the minimum wage and clamping down on immigration"

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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

In case you missed it, @lewisbaston.bsky.social on last week's trio of #london by-elections - their locations, their outcomes and their wider significance: www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston....

onlondon.co.uk

Three different London by-election winners, one underlying trend

The two contests in Hounslow and the one Barnet suggest the anti-Labour mood might be fading

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A resentment I’m still carrying about “All of Us Strangers” is that Paul Mescal a) can play drunk but b) can’t convincingly play “attracted to Andrew Scott”, and therefore the film, for me at least, does not work.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau, Xi Jinping (technically Liu He) and Jean-Claude Juncker in the exclusive and honourable club of people who have bamboozled Trump by signing deals in which he gets nothing. Heroes all. They should get badges and membership cards made up.

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Exclusive: The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal

The Kyiv Independent has obtained from a source in the Ukrainian government, the full text of the mineral deal agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June. This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast.

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

One good thing to emerge from all this: British commentators increasingly talking about Europe as “us”

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I’m not keen on the framing of this story, which veers at least close to blaming Rayner for not reporting the messages about herself in 2022. Let’s not pretend that for women reporting sexist abuse about yourself is some kind of risk free exercise www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Angela Rayner reportedly told about offensive WhatsApp joke in 2022

Deputy prime minister reportedly told separately by two councillors about lewd messages about her on group

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Who would have thought central bank independence was more real than the US constitution? Wild.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

But I was specifically assured that the one thing Trump cared about was the stock market.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’m not sure how the US’ allies will respond to targeted economic sanctions against a fellow NATO member, let alone military action to occupy territory. I know how they should react: incredibly firmly to the point of reduced diplomatic relations, and prioritising new military alliance. I doubt it.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

How do we, the 'moving closer to Europe would be good for the economy rn' community, do 'intense lobbying'? Just asking.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I think both this post and the replies are a bit hysterical. Whatever one thinks of the appointment of Chris Wormald, it was the one that Starmer wanted to make and it came through this process, as did *Olly Robbins at the FCDO*.

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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Welcoming Housing Minister @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to Bluesky!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 23/12/2024

Watching Ghostbusters and thinking Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss should do a British interpretation with more seances and haunted tearooms.

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