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Rhi Storer

@rhistorer.bsky.social
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Policy Correspondent with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social | Spelling mistakes always | Email me here: rhi.storer@newstatesman.co.uk | London via Birmingham

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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zack Polanski merch here at Green Party conference similar to bootleg 90s hip hop tees
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The Cotswold Woolgatherers’ stall boasts a certificate reading “From sheep to jumper: 8 hours 54 minutes – 2nd fastest team in the world”. I note that the wool from the recently hand-shorn sheep has vanished.”
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The new Tinashe album is the PERFECT album to travel down to Green Party Conference with
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm looking to understand celtic nationalism more for a piece I am working on. Any books or reader recs?
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone wishes for the good old days and the monkeys paw has decided we should do: (1) a 1970s oil crisis (2) a 1990s tech cycle (3) a 2010s eurozone debt crisis All at once.
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We can’t be complacent at all just because this bar-chart exists that shows there are more people who are anti-Reform than pro-Reform.” My @newstatesman1913.bsky.social column on how Labour navigates multi-party politics, and warnings of “complacency” when it comes to Reform and tactical voting:
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Labour doesn't know who it's fighting anymore
Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eva, it's behind you.
Eva Longoria with caption "Searching for France" but she is walking away from the Eiffel Tower.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exploring Labour Party conference… Burnham’s new cabinet ministers?
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like whoever named them Red Delicious apples has never actually eaten a delicious apple.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
thank you, Labour Conference Services, for the fourth reminder email about where to pick up my conference pass (I already have it)
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll be at Labour party conference next week - my first ever!! Hopefully it's more lively than the Conservative party conference back in 2022 under Liz Truss... Do you have tips? Event suggestions? Would you like to have coffee (or food) and talk about policy? Get in touch!
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For @newstatesman1913.bsky.social I've written about Ofgem. Back in April, stakeholders in a government review called Ofgem "opaque and resistant to change". Now with the energy price cap up by four per cent to £1,723 a year, I ask... is it fit for the future? www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
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Is Ofgem fit for the future?
Ministers want Ofgem to protect consumers, deliver net zero and promote growth. Some question whether it can do all three
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Started reading Orwell's 'Can Socialists Be Happy?' - a bundle of essays from Penguin Archive - over the weekend. Replace film, radio, aeroplane, with AI, and this passage, from 'Pleasure Spots', first published 1946, reads like it was written last week.
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Latest @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod! Oli Dugmore and I discuss the Good Life, English sparkling wine and try to summon some thoughts about Harry and Meghan - plus a rap battle (of sorts) and a comparison of our music tastes...
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Is the UK really poorer than Mississippi? | The Politics Show
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'If there’s “no justice until there are Serco houses in Kensington”, as one former Labour minister put it to me, then we will be waiting a long time for a policy fix.' My piece on the Thetford violence, asylum, HMOs, and Britain's snowballing race-riot problem:
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Race riots have become an annual British event
Once again – this time in Thetford – asylum seekers have become a locus for violence
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Went to a birthday party over the weekend - the theme being 'things you'd put in Room 101' and someone went as 'people who flake' honestly got to respect the arts and craft
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
That national emergency alert scared the shit out of me !!
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For @newstatesman1913.bsky.social I watched the solar eclipse (thanks to a special early morning delivery of very sought-after glasses). It reminded me of childhood evenings spent stargazing with Dad www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...
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My race to see the eclipse
The once-in-a-generation event was exhilarating and nauseating in equal measure
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/08/2026
Hey @bsky.support @support.bsky.team your AI is falsifying election results again
Trending box with first line as "Farage wins Clacton seat" for an election that's happening today
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why yes I did queue at the most exclusive club in London... a corner shop in Aldgate East for a special early morning delivery of solar eclipse glasses !!!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@MNateShyamalan
Entomologist here. Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more. Let’s dive in (1/?)

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@theoceanblooms
can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now

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@ABC
Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.

@MNateShyamalan
he look like stick (2/2)
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For @newstatesman1913.bsky.social I spent three nights at a rehab centre in North Wales speaking to people with gambling addiction. An estimated 1.4m UK adults have a gambling problem. I wanted to go beyond the policy and chat to those in treatment. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The fragility of gambling recovery care
The national support network is delicate
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I travelled to Norfolk to watch the World Snail Racing Championships to get over my aversion to creepy crawlies in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social (and my magazine debut!!)
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It rained!!! For three minutes!!!
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Essssam @essssam.com · 30/07/2026
Had a ton of fun designing a boss fight with a computer cursor 🖱️💀 #indiegame #gamedev
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
People talking about 1976: "we weren't dramatic like these days, we just got on with it" Also, 1976: "we have appointed a Minister for Drought and are forcing him to dance for rain"
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy
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Delft Holland @stimoo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#Delft #Delftholland
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Today's news on social care reforms was also reported back in May when I helped commission this piece for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social by Re:State, a Burnham-linked think tank. The piece suggests the case for a new “social insurance” model. Take a read below: www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
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Social care is bankrupting councils. Why aren't we angry?
Failing to fix the disappearance of dignity in later life will be a blot on all our records
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Kiyoshi Saito (Japanese, 1907–1997) "Steady Gaze", 1962.. Woodcut Print, 60 × 45 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
© Timothy Adam Matthews. 'Greek Kitties.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 16 × 20 inches.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pet annoyance: Conferences with no plug sockets. Can't have a post-3pm lunch slump when you're filing copy on 4% battery
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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 29/06/2026
We would like to point out that the only way to define the boundaries of Greater Birmingham is this… www.paradisecircus.com/2015/10/06/t...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
feels very odd that it's less than a week since Starmer resigned. feels like it's been ages
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm afraid I am a member of the Big Solero Lobby and it is unquestionably the best ice lolly on this list
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What a guy
4 panel comic

Panel 1: a wizard in blue robe and white beard sitting with small forg at a desk behind the computer. “Click, click” is the sound of the mouse to be heard
Panel 2: close up on the computer screen. There’s a green check mark and a full loading bar on it. From off screen someone, probably the wizard, says “boom, there it is”.
Panel 3: forg is left behind alone at his desk. There’s an open door in the background. Forg says “thanks installation wizard” and a little pink heart appears, showing his affection.
Panel 4: we see now that the wizard has already left the house after a job well done. He replies to forg watching him go from his window: “it’s what I do”
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Cartoon showing a man on a branch. He is cutting it off with a saw, and will fall down with it. A sign reads Brexit reenactment, 10th anniversary celebration.
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My friends have arranged a charity World Cup sweepstake for all 48 teams... I have Columbia. Let's hope it doesn't go like the 2018 World Cup!!
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
smoking and writing really are my favourite past times
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
By Jim Benton
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Rhi Storer @rhistorer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
!! Shababs mentioned !! www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
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Save the balti! Can Birmingham’s best dish come back from the brink?
In the 1990s, there were hundreds of authentic balti restaurants in the English city. Now, there are about 20. Will a big campaign bring back the boom times?
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