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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If only she were still leader.

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Jan Philipp Albrecht @janalbrecht.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is important that the German Greens directly reject the UK Green Party’s resolution titled "Zionism is Racism" and welcome the suspension of its voting rights within the European Green Party. It‘s urgently necessary for the @europeangreens.eu to distance itself from the UK Green Party’s position.

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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The motion passed at Green Party Conf' actively undermines a 2-state solution, and does not address the rising threats of Islamophobia and Antisemitism here in the UK. This is a divisive motion that pours fuel on the fire of tensions in the UK, and will leave many British Jews feeling less safe.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The time to discuss the creation of Israel was in the 1940s. Israel exists. Whether you think it ought ever have been created is irrelevant. It is home to over ten million people and cannot morally be unmade. The idea that supporting a two-state solution is racist is an absolute trash take.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, this is mad. Devolution will not work until govt and civil service work through their unhealthy obsession with centralised control, probably with therapy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ministers explore how to stop regional leaders misusing planned new spending powers

Labour wants to make sure mayors and council chiefs in England can be held to account for extra revenues devolved to them

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I occasionally log in to Facebook. But yikes, it's really just all AI slop and racism. Like 80% of the feed is crayon-eating boomers scapegoating migrants. Grim.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The kids are alright, but it's consistently shocking to me how much their grandparents seem to want to kill them. A group which were overwhelmingly never conscripted, never had national service, and lived through the most sustained peace and prosperity that any humans have ever known. It is sick.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Streeting says, re Chagos Islands and Trump's lack of support for the deal, that "The strategy is not to wait out President Trump." Almost certainly signalling that the strategy *is* just to wait out Trump.

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

95% chance this is neo-Nazis trying to burn immigrants to death but we have to report it like "Hmm a hotel fire on the south coast, how mysterious" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fire Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel treated as suspicious

About 280 people were evacuated from the premises at Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Open Banking has been such a success in the UK that I can **checks notes** ... still write a screen scraper to prepare my small business accounts 👍

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Parliament's rejection of the assisted dying bill is sad and disgraceful. A clear majority of people support the principle. Forcing people to drown in their own shit is inhumane. A downright abdication of decency and dignity. My life. My death. Get your grubby hands off it.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Nigel acted as soon as he saw this footage" says Reform lackey. Bitch he's IN THE FOOTAGE.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

James Cleverly admirably demonstrating the worst instincts of some in our capital. One person says "actually, the rest of the UK exists," and he goes on a weeks long temper tantrum about how unfair that is to London. Touch grass, James.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was really the best of people. Clearly very genuinely kind. There are too few people like that. RIP Dolly.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Kids are told AI is 'inevitable' and acting accordingly. This is harming their cognitive development and foreclosing their life opportunities. Generative AI is cognitive cancer and we are doing next to nothing to stop it from spreading."

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

The 50 Percent Problem

Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When did you know? Yeah this. Billy Kennedy in his speedos 👀

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
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We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Bold of Chris Philp to assume that the French know who he is. I certainly don't.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The real question is why anyone would care what David Frost thinks.

Screenshot from Guardian Europe Live. It reads "Meanwhile, former Brexit negotiatior David Frost has said Andy Burnham, if made prime minister, should ditch much of Keir Starmer’s reset with the EU."

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 23/06/2026

After ten years of the Conservatives’ Brexit experiment, the British public have had enough. Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million ‘reward’ for the damage he’s caused, while the rest of us are paying for it dearly. It’s time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Ed Davey stood in front of a billboard showing Nigel Farage with the caption 10 years on do you feel better off?

Ed Davey flanked by MPs and campaigners in front of a billboard showing Nigel Farage with the caption "10 years on, do you feel better off?"

Campaigners in Manchester in front of a billboard of Nigel Farage captioned '10 years on, do you feel better off?'

Campaigner in Edinburgh in front of a billboard of Nigel Farage captioned '10 years on do you feel better off?'

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 10/06/2026

The scenes we saw in Belfast yesterday were horrific, and people are right to be concerned. The Government must take action against tech billionaires like Elon Musk, who control the divisive and harmful social media algorithms that are inciting violence and hatred.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is really about, not hurty words. If we don't take measures to defend our democracy, we will lose it.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Imagine being the government of the UK and not having banned Twitter. Twiddling your thumbs while a foreign fascist foments violence on the streets and preaches ethnic cleansing and an end to democracy.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Let's do a chaotic braindump thread of my takes on social media regulation:

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I despair at the state of our party on this. No interest in listening to experts or thinking about actually liberal responses; just clutch those pearls a bit harder, show how ignorant you are of the technology you're talking about, and throw away some more votes from the under 40s. Wild.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/06/2026

"There are almost no truly public spaces on the internet. Everywhere we congregate is privately owned, even if it operates as a public space. But we seem somehow content to accept them as fiefdoms in their own right, beyond the reach of government."

open.substack.com

A teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces

The UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step.

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The total line up is at least Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Nick Tenconi, Paul Golding, and Luke Jahn. This was not community anger at policing. It was an organized, national far-right riot.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Please just ban everyone from social media.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Labelling this "exact" is very 16th Century LinkedIn.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As I’ve argued for a long time, we’ve been making life harder for kids for decades, from messing with the environment to letting cars and money dominate, to turning schools into qualification mills, from ASBOs to hatred of almost every aspect of youth culture. All of that needs to change. It won’t.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This truly is appalling. A massive racist would say they feel 'distressed' at black people being in the same space as them, and obviously what you do there is throw the massive racist out and ban them. This is pandering to bastards like they did to racists in the American South. Absolutely fuck this

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"Net-zero is killing our economy" – Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Well, people liked David Miliband, didn't they?

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Other major differences between British Steel and a University: 1. government, not ‘the market’, sets the price of education, 2. gov determines who can buy the product (through visas and other access costs). 3. gov regulates how the product should be delivered (OFS). Stalin would be proud.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Please remember that the purpose of the OSA was not child safety, it was to create a captive market for the AV and content scanning sectors, and sales pitches were what shaped the law, as I wrote here. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that... They want their ROI and they want it now.

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The Dog that Caught the Car: Britain's 'World-Leading' Internet

Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading acro...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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