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Rosie Denham

@rosiedenham.bsky.social
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By day, helping organisations and leaders engage, influence and communicate. By night, plotting a way to spend my days gardening.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Oh look, gas-guzzling surrender monkeys
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era
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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
ifs.org.uk
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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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Gru standing in front on the moon, from the film Despicable Me
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
sorry to make a bleak news run more so, but this genuinely brought me up short: the number of mothers killed by their sons. It's a form of domestic violence that is so little talked about. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Sons were suspects in nearly one in five cases of women killed by men in UK in past year
Figures recorded by Femicide Census in past 12 months indicate highest rate of matricide in 16 years
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Unless there’s a multivitamin for ending patriarchy, I’m begging brands to stop #IWD
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There will have been around 30,000 UK-born and around 6,000 foreign-born *eligible* voters. It is entirely implausible that this is why Reform lost (by 5000). It is plausible it increased the Green majority - probably by about 3000 voters
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
the minute the fb algorithm clocks you as a straight man it immediately sets about trying to destroy your life & endanger those around you
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
And just like that, Gilead was no longer dystopian fiction. “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.” www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco, which has been colonised by immigrant tax dodgers.
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yes I imagine this will end the distraction… ffs
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Most MPs are honest, hard-working and clean as anything. Dragging Parliament through the dirt hurts everyone, especially the weakest in our society. Next time you wonder why governing has got harder, this type of a debacle is one reason.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 04/02/2026
So his “lapse of judgement” seems to be that he said: “we haven’t cut front-line services other than what the Conservatives had already planned to do” So Kent-Dodge was itself a waste of money and effort? Everyone told them that before they started
Text from a clipping of the newspaper article reads: 

CouncillorFraser Moat’s colleague Councillor Paul Chamberlain, a deputy cabinet member, was also quoted as saying: “We made some assumptions that we would come in here and find some of the craziness found in America and that was wrong, we didn’t find any of that.”
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Matthew Goodwin once ate his own book on TV after a wrong prediction Nobody noticed his Oct 2024 interview with Nick Robinson included another promise to eat his book if net migration fell to 200k in a year. (It did: net 204k in year to June 2025; will dip far below 200k once we have 2025 stats)
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/01/2026
"Reform's press release notes he was 'first in his family' to go to university – a ‘fact’ that raised eyebrows given his father, who was awarded a CBE by the Queen for his services to the NHS, acquired a Master’s in Business Administration in the 1980s, and a PhD during Tony Blair’s first term."
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Labour's best hope in Gorton & Denton? Matt Goodwin
This by-election was supposed to be a referendum on Starmer - but it could turn into one on Reform’s divisive populist
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ah yes, Stalinism - where famously everything is on your doorstep and life is happier and more convenient and you don't have to waste whole years of your life in a car, polluting the environment. Absolutely, that was what Stalinism was all about.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The BBC summary relays false claims but does not prioritise the facts at all
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Despite every single thing they've said having been proven wrong, they're back at the grovelling with hardly a pause. They want to destroy our sovereignty and independence. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
telegraph.co.uk
We should strive to be America’s new Israel
Britain must find a new national strategy and reinvigorate its relationship with the economic and defence superpower
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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Shocking increase in maternal deaths and stark inequalities. How was this allowed to happen
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Maternal death rate in UK rose by 20% over 14 years despite Tory pledge
Experts describe increase as ‘absolute tragedy’ after data shows rate jumped despite Conservatives vowing to halve it
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/01/2026
Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...
Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform.

Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
Department of Homeland Security post on X affirming immunity for ICE agents under all circumstances
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I can not think of no other public space or institution in the UK apart from major social media platforms [since football terraces prior to the 1991 legislation] where this type of active protection of unlawful racial slurs would not be challenged,nor even noticed www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/01/2026
I agree though I think "algorithm" is better thought of as short-hand for a lot of the features social media have. Likes providing a running score card for creative meanness, Quotes allowing you to go "get a look at this guy" to all your followers, algo driven discovery/feeds etc.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/01/2026
Not particularly apropos of anything but: At some point we are gonna have to face up to the fact we’ve spent most of the last decade blaming “the algorithm” for stuff that’s mostly just human nature and culture.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Contrary to what you may think, I do not care one jot about Starmer's fate. I do care about the number of people who seem to mistake precipitousness for moral clarity and bravado for courage - even in circumstances where getting it wrong might have catastrophic consequences. It frightens me deeply.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Government/Starmer/Reeves' unpopularity isn't so surprising imo. - pervasive mood of discontent - voters are increasingly volatile and dealigned from parties - economic stagnation/cost of living - polarised/toxic information environment - weak govt/PM comms - flawed strategy (alienating core vote)
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I might be biased but @jydenham.bsky.social has an excellent substack that I think makes sense of this through the lens of nationhood and the question of who the nation serves. For Reform and now Tories it’s ethnonationalism. Who’s offering a clear, progressive alternative vision of nationhood?
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
At least something is going right in the world 🎉 #Strictly
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 16/12/2025
Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country. Well ours anyway… So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
National Populism: Puppets of Putin AND Trump? A quick response to the new US National Security Strategy and its welcome in the Kremlin
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National Populists: ‘Puppets of Putin AND Trump?'
A response to the new US National Security Strategy.
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Max Warner @maxwarner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
NEW: Hospital productivity growth is beating the government’s targets. So why hasn't the NHS made more progress on cutting elective waiting times? In a new @theifs.bsky.social comment, we examine what’s driving the divergence between two of the government’s biggest NHS priorities. 1/11
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The new US National Security Strategy calls Europe's national populist parties 'political allies of the USA'. This makes Europe's need for a new vision of stronger nations and deeper cooperation the more urgent, as I argue here:https://buff.ly/EYyDshG
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Buster Bluth from Arrested Development holding his stuffed toys and saying these are my awards, mother, from FIFA
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Old ideas allowing national populism to grow, but there is little energy behind the search for new ones buff.ly/UkQUdkW
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Englishness is a contested identity: we must engage - or lose open.substack.com/pub/nationst...
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's through national populism that malevolent ideas, funded by those with no interest in or connection with the nation, pass into mainstream politics. From latest post buff.ly/R0XfEFD
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
Graphic showing why higher-front vehicles are more deadly when hitting pedestrians
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Rosie Denham @rosiedenham.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Full refund on my trip halfway up the country this weekend (for ultimately a fairly minor inconvenience). 50% refund on a trip to London last month. Delay Repay is A Good Thing but it doesn’t seem… an entirely sustainable way to run a rail network.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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