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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Local elections in Holborn & St Pancras in May were % share Lab 39-40 Green 29-31 Ref 8-9 Con 7 Ld 7. But also 6% Other, mostly for left wing localists. So Lab start ahead, but not too far ahead unless the Greens and socialists both run candidates.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting to see the changes in borough results. Wigan (partly Makerfield effect) and Tameside particularly good Labour recovery on their right flank from May. Manchester City on the left. Stockport Lib Dem squeeze; Tories probably most disappointed going backwards in Trafford.

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Uncredited Narrator 🇹🇹 🇬🇩 @alstonf87.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Characters who let the baby escape, only to face him years later as a fully grown threat

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Super interesting - whilst absolute numbers of those suffering dementia are rising due to ageing populations, this analysis suggests in the US dementia rates have been steadily declining with each cohort. So there are things we are doing right that can help economist.com/briefing/202...

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United States, % with dementia by age
Selected birth cohorts

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/06/2026

*Reading announcements* So my takeaway is that in the coming years video game consoles will be more expensive, but to make up for it, there will be fewer video games for them

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 15/06/2026

I do love that the Cabo Verde player from Shamrock Rovers was invited to for the national team via LinkedIn. This is the first good thing that LinkedIn has ever done.

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Chris Clarke @warringfictions.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

1/ I have written a series of articles this week, ‘Notes on Trust’, about where cynicism towards politicians comes from. The below chart, which I shared last year, was the thing which initially prompted me to write the piece. I just want to set out some of the key arguments here…

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Feyered, so to speak

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There was a post here a couple of years ago arguing that the desire for authenticity is fundamentally “the desire to be confronted with a stereotype” and while that was specifically about tourism I think it applies to a lot more than that

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

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How have English councils’ funding and spending changed? 2010 to 2024 | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Increases in council funding over the last parliament have not reversed big cuts made during the 2010s, with spending on many services still down 40%.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Just to illustrate the scale of this a bit more. The shift in votes in the Gorton by-election wasn't so much left right - but from the traditional big two parties to the two insurgent parties.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is so stupid and I laughed like a drain

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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Basically whenever you see a news story based on survey results of 18-24 year olds, especially if it's a subset of a large poll of all age groups, just assume it's nonsense

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Labour pointing out poll appears to have been commissioned by Opal Ltd, director Brian Eno, which has previously donated to the Green Party

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Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

First constituency poll in Gorton and Denton here: www.omnisis.co.uk/poll-result/... By my poor maths excluding will not vote, and don't know, it is as GREEN 37%, REFORM 33% and LABOUR 30%

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Constituency Polling for by-election in Gorton and Denton – Omnisis

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Shocking chart alert! Patients waiting over 12 hours in A&E in England hit a new record high in January, exceeding 70,000 for the first time. In the past, it was rare for this number to exceed 1,000. This is only counting the waiting time after the decision has been made to admit the patient.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21/01/2026

Support for Labour now *rises* with household income, while Reform UK's is stronger among poorer households Household income less than £20k Ref: 34% Con: 18% Lab: 15% Grn: 14% LD: 12% Household income more than £70k Lab: 23% LD: 19% Con: 19% Grn: 17% Ref: 16% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

None of this excuses Trump, but: 1) There is an OLC opinion that authorizes this, which future AG then OLC head Bill Barr signed in 1989 to authorize the very similar Panama invasion. 2) There is an indictment. It was unsealed under Barr in 2020. 3) Indictment is real. Former top aide pled in June

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

NEW DATA: Where the teens are YouTube 92% TikTok 68% Instagram 63% Snapchat 55% Facebook 31% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 24% Reddit 17% X 16% (down from 33%) www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/1…

Chart showing YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it. About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram. A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%). Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%). And no more than about one-in-five say the same of Reddit or X (formerly Twitter). WhatsApp is one platform that stands out for its growth in recent years. Today, roughly a quarter of teens say they use WhatsApp, up from 17% in 2022. X and Facebook have declined in use over the past decade. Today, 16% of teens use X, down from 23% in 2022 and 33% in 2014-15. And Facebook, once the go-to platform for teens, is used today by about three-in-ten teens. This is far lower than the 71% in 2014-15, though on par with 2022. The shares of teens who use other sites or apps, like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, have stayed relatively stable in recent years.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/12/2025

Don’t say this lightly but Birmingham Mail’s gaming of its position on Apple News/Google to farm clicks makes it one of the most effective spreaders of false information in the country. Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/11/2025

I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Don't miss the brilliant @riakapoor.bsky.social's talk at the CSI this Thursday on “Refugee Internationalisms? The Ugandan Asian Case” 12-1pm, Thu 27 Nov, in Birkbeck Central Building room 402 - or email me for Teams link

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 20/10/2025

It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy

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Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

but… this is increasing income tax… just in another way.

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Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Rather buried in the ST interview but I think this is the first time we've heard these things direct sourced to Cameron himself:- that he didn't think he'd actual have a to hold a referendum (when he announced policy thought Lib Dems would block), and then when he held it was sure he would win it.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This is excellent

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public" - a quote that will one day make for a fantastic essay question

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American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Striking finding from @timbale.bsky.social’s latest survey of Tory members: the average Tory member (60) is younger than the average Tory voter (62)

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A... remarkable new @walesgovernance.bsky.social ITV Wales @yougov.co.uk poll of Welsh voting intentions for the next Senedd election (changes since May) - Plaid 30% (-) - Reform 29% (+4) - Labour 14% (-4) - Cons 11% (-2) - Lib Dems 6% (-1) - Green 6% (+1) - Other 4% (+2) #Senedd #devolution

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Very interesting revelation in @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social's evening newsletter: Andrew Gwynne, one of the MPs rumoured to be thinking of standing down to make way for Andy Burnham, has applied to the Commons authorities to retire on medical grounds.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

From the BES, Labour's biggest drop in support (percentage points): -20 Unemployed -20 Social renter -18 Private renter -17 Yorks + Humber -17 Students -17 Lesbian, gay, bisexual -16 North West -16 North East -15 Age 46-55 -15 Jewish -15 Scotland -15 Age 36-45 -14 East Mids

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Staggering chart from the FT. Each of Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta (MAMA!) are set to spend over $100bn annually on capex by 2030, more than all four combined in 2020. All because of the LLM-triggered AI boom... on.ft.com/3HwH8Y8

Giant increases in capex from Big four tech

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

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Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

So many different parts of the public services seem to have failed in this very sad case.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/08/2025

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It’s the first night of the proms! I feel Radio 3 should have mentioned it recently so it didn’t come unawares.

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