iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Ross

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think it would surprise the Matt Goodwin of 2022, not just of the Goodwin of 2014, that he now opposes (would ban ?) refugee participation in public life. He used to see ethnic minority leadership as a good sign of integration & showing Britain had progressed more on race than progressives thought

1217838

Reposted by Ross

Steve @disturbeddemon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It's just beautiful isn't it #hcafc

021

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This kinda heat should be outlawed in the UK

010

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What an experience seeing your home team win at Wembley!!😭 #hcafc

030

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Must admit, I haven't been bricking it before a football match, like I am now, in a long time #hcafc

010

Reposted by Ross

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell

Graph showing total net migration fell by two thirds in 2025.

Graph showing use of supported accommodation lowest since 2022. Use of hotels halved from 2022 peak.

Asylum applications, January 2025 to December 2025
100,625
+
4% over 12 months
Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Returns and deportations from the UK, January 2025 to December 2025
37,918
↑9% over 12 months
Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Arrivals by small boat, 1 January 2026 to 14 May 2026
7,576
↓40% same period 2025
Home Office data, as of 15 May 2026

Across the political spectrum, people mistakenly believe that migration is increasing
Perception net migration was higher in 2025 than 2024, by party respondent is likely to vote for
Reform
62%
Con
53%
Lib Dems
46%
Green
44%
Lab
41%
Guardian graphic. Source: British future. Note: 3,003 adults in Great Britain surveyed online, 19-30 Mar 2026

26474267

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Don't suppose there is anyone with a Hull City membership who's willing to purchase 2/3 tickets on my behalf as I don't meet the criteria to purchase them 😭 #HCAFC

002

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lucky! Unfortunately I live down south so I'm unable to get a ticket so pub day for me!

100

Reposted by Ross

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Just such a complete extremist mentalist. Who loses out if a dead person chooses to donate to someone who couldn't have been a mother otherwise her womb?!? Nobody!

2428731

Reposted by Ross

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

10490153

Reposted by Ross

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 24/02/2026

Reform UK have suggested introducing a new ‘patriotic curriculum’ based on Christianity to give children ‘things to take pride in again’. However, there is already plenty that children and young people can and do take pride in. 🧵

88928

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sadly a situation that's been allowed to happen time and time again

010

Reposted by Ross

Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I went to watch Sheffield Wednesday get relegated at Bramall Lane yesterday, the worst end to the worst story. This season hasn't even been sport, simply a long lesson for English football. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

inews.co.uk

Sheffield Wednesday have perfected the art of misery

Years of gross mismanagement led to the ultimate insult: relegation at Bramall Lane

3195

Reposted by Ross

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Robert Jenrick announces Reform UK will keep the OBR and Bank of England independence, with an emphasis on fiscal discipline, signified by restoring the two child benefit cap. The speech is essentially the same as every Tory chancellor's conference speech in the last 10 years.

31531165

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

and wait until you tell the Irish that they're British!

010

Reposted by Ross

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Encapsulates this government perfectly in this one sentence. ‘Fascinating to hear that Starmer is extremely proud of doing something that he last year suspended seven of his MPs for voting for.’

122

Reposted by Ross

John F @easttnliberal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you believe a president who pardons drug dealers is fighting a war on drugs I don’t know how to help you…

11044741139

Reposted by Ross

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So many policy debates would be better understood (I’m not saying they would necessarily have better outcomes) if we used percentage figures. Tesco’s pre-tax profit of 4.5 per cent, for example.

2612016

Reposted by Ross

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Just to actually address some things that are driving me mad: The government has pledged to bring down immigration and is relying on higher migration to make its budgets work. They have reduced tax incentives for saving in pension schemes whilst perceiving those schemes as engines of investment.

1196

Reposted by Ross

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

1223377976

Reposted by Ross

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...

66619168

Reposted by Ross

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

371370562

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Completely agree, I still have fond memories of that 2013/14 FA Cup run

110

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I enjoyed it while it lasted but I did think we were over performing Vs what I expected this season

110

Reposted by Ross

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I’M SICK OF AMERICANS SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has

1520852

Reposted by Ross

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?

417842

Reposted by Ross

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times. This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school. And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need". www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

"Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school. It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain."

27363127

Reposted by Ross

God @thegodshow.com · 25/11/2025

The House passed a resolution condemning socialism. Okay. When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?

480103082304

Reposted by Ross

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

WHY NATO DOESN’T NEED AMERICA I worked for years inside the command structure and it’s barely changed in principle. The only reason there is a SACEUR who is American is because the US supplied the majority of the air and land power and it had nuclear weapons. It’s land component is considerably

815742

Reposted by Ross

James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Are a small number of legacy disciplines dragging the whole of government down? A provocation: medium.com/@jamestplunk... Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n

medium.com

The disciplines theory of government

Are legacy disciplines dragging the whole operation down?

93614

Reposted by Ross

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Men will spend billions on building their own AI rather than go to therapy.

2038469

Reposted by Ross

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now” My take on Trump and Epstein, and the pretty stunning email from Epstein suggesting he could bring down Trump. From this morning’s Zeteo ‘First Draft’ morning newsletter. Read/share/subscribe:

zeteo.com

We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now

Mehdi on the creepy dead pedophile who was threatening a creepy president, the latest from Marjorie Taylor Greene's revolt, and Gavin Newsom's ambitious attempt to unite the Democratic Party.

40861207

Reposted by Ross

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

One line stuck out for me in @stephenkb.bsky.social 's excellent morning email today - "No other government since 1970 would have suggested that such a direct linkage between “immigration policy” and “the safety of ethnic minorities in the UK” was something we should accept." Not so sure on this.1/?

38924

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Can't wait for you to make them for me

000

Reposted by Ross

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It doesn't seem great that we have an MP - albeit one estranged from Reform - who is now promoting explicit Powellite racism and hanging out with white nationalist accounts on X.

54368121

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Tbh I'm not sure he ever had the plot

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Don Broco at Engine Rooms yesterday were incredible! Although I sweat so much I got stuck in my T-shirt trying to take it off for T-Shirt Song

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I am soooooo excited for this!! 📽️

000

Reposted by Ross

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth. But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:

14368150

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I like gigs at the Principality because hopefully they can have the roof closed, much better atmosphere and sound!

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Credit cards are for gig tickets right?

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Why isn't the Labour government focusing on building more social housing? Wouldn't that be an investment that pays for itself in the long run?

020

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I've always hated that the camera at Wembley is on the side of the stadium it is. The view of the dugout area always looks so bare compared to the rest of the stands. It's especially noticeable at England games #PlayOffFinal

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Why doesn't Goodreads let you rate books in 0.5 star intervals?

000

Ross @rossmaan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

That's good to know, I do intend to watch them all, I was supposed to this week but work keeps getting in the way

010