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Bit of an inside baseball q. Of all the SNP MPs and MSPs and those who've retired (& are still living), who is the most compelling talker?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23h

A number of people who I know disagree profoundly with parts of Burnham’s speech were nonetheless enraptured by it. That, ultimately, is the only thing that gives the party a chance of being re-elected in 2029.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 10h

David Kynaston pulls us into the minutiae of thousands of lives, some famous and others completely unexceptional. It is riveting. My review of Deep into the Sixties www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

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The dirty secrets of Britain’s 1960s

David Kynaston’s new book shows how the Beatles, Carnaby Street and Geoff Hurst obscured years of decline, racism and repression

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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feel sorry for all the other moggies who run off and just get a ‘Missing Cat - please check your shed’ and a blurred mugshot.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌹 NEW EPISODE 🌹 Hope again… again? Can Burnham and Healey get Labour a second first chance with the Liverpool conference? 🌹 With @rostaylor.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @jamesrball.com 🌹 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having worked a lot with universities trying to get their research out it into the world, it is always bracing to encounter a (Russell Group) academic who 1) tells you your topic is too broad 2) refuses to recommend anyone who might talk to you for 15 minutes, as they are all too busy.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lord, give me a social care plan, but not yet

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI has some uses. D&D brownie cake recipe from @nigella.bsky.social

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can we call *this* suicidal empathy?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling an election now could very easily make Reform the official opposition. Even if Labour wins, that’s not a legacy they’d relish.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When climate protesters - some elderly women - lay down in the street, they were jailed: the men of the far right, on the other hand, disperse without being arrested. I talked to @natashawalter.bsky.social about the crackdown on eco-protestors in the UK. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dont-lean-in...

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Don’t Lean In: Natasha Walter on Ecofeminism

“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest, but the women’s movement without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet.”

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You might think The Wargame is a reality TV show where you get to see Michael Gove pretending to be PM. But that’s the bait. It could have been funded by the MoD. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...

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Sky’s The Wargame might be prescient - but it’s also propaganda

Michael Gove finally gets to be PM in a reality show about a Russian attack on the UK that feels like a campaign for public support for defence spending

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I just find it insane, the level of repression, and how little mainstream liberals and conservatives have stepped up to this.” I interviewed @natashawalter.bsky.social for @greeneujournal.bsky.social about eco-feminism & the climate protest crackdown. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dont-lean-in...

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Don’t Lean In: Natasha Walter on Ecofeminism

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Don’t Lean In: Natasha Walter on Ecofeminism

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In about half a century, probably more, judging by the detail of the proposal.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

thenewworld.co.uk

Sky’s The Wargame might be prescient - but it’s also propaganda

Michael Gove finally gets to be PM in a reality show about a Russian attack on the UK that feels like a campaign for public support for defence spending

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My review of Sky’s The Wargame. It’s not really about how Michael Gove would govern in a crisis. It’s propaganda - maybe prescient, but propaganda nonetheless. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...

thenewworld.co.uk

Sky’s The Wargame might be prescient - but it’s also propaganda

Michael Gove finally gets to be PM in a reality show about a Russian attack on the UK that feels like a campaign for public support for defence spending

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Burnham promised politics with a “sense of optimism” – can he keep up the smiles as next month’s budget looms and the reality of government sets in? @rostaylor.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Strictly feels more modern with this presenting team, which is something of an achievement for a show whose aesthetic has barely altered in 22 years. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

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The strangely comforting Britain of Strictly Come Dancing

National anxiety and polarisation seem to be growing, but the show continues to offer a wholesome vision of unity and happiness

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Strictly feels more modern with this presenting team, which is something of an achievement for a show whose aesthetic has barely altered in 22 years. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

thenewworld.co.uk

The strangely comforting Britain of Strictly Come Dancing

National anxiety and polarisation seem to be growing, but the show continues to offer a wholesome vision of unity and happiness

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Swedes still deporting pre Brexit residents Brits, despite prospective new government promises new laws to give them a second chance. I met this man hours after he was deported - he was distraught to say the least www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home

Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The uptake of this pernicious theory is one of the things that makes me feel that we as a society and a polity are in deep trouble.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New reviews for the TLS. Truth by Michael Shermer and the unusually rich Captive Minds by Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/t...

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Democracy in peril

Free speech, truth and the death of discourse

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New reviews for the TLS. Truth by Michael Shermer and the unusually rich Captive Minds by Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/t...

the-tls.com

Democracy in peril

Free speech, truth and the death of discourse

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Suicidal empathy' is a new buzzword on the far right, but where did it come from and how does it fit into the MAGA worldview? www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

thenewworld.co.uk

The strange rise of ‘Suicidal Empathy’

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very rich men used to try to shape politics from within. Crypto guys want to overturn it altogether. Good chat about whether the £72m changes everything.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remember the endless heatwaves? The good news: summer 2026 is “at the upper end, but not quite at the worst end” of climate projections. The less good news: “next year will probably be as bad”. How are we going to adapt? Latest for @politicshome.bsky.social. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Heatwaves Are Now Routine – So, How Are We Going To Adapt?

A summer of relentless heatwaves, spiking mortality and wildfires brought home the reality of climate change to many Brits. Just how hot must it ge...

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Teases out how Trumpism, the Rapture and AI cohere in parts of the American mind. For those who want to understand why America has gone down the path to fascism, this is a compelling polemic. Review of Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-a...

thenewworld.co.uk

Apocalypse wow: The American right wingers rooting for doomsday

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity

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Apocalypse wow: The American right wingers rooting for doomsday

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Suicidal empathy' is a new buzzword on the far right, but where did it come from and how does it fit into the MAGA worldview? www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

thenewworld.co.uk

The strange rise of ‘Suicidal Empathy’

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not impressed by the 87 MPs who couldn’t bring themselves to vote on assisted dying.

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Purna @purnasen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was just talking to an old schoolmate about this at the weekend. He didn’t know the whole story…but you can hear it on this podcast. It’s quite shocking that even today some women and girls are still fighting to decide for themselves what they wear. Thanks @rostaylor.bsky.social for this convo

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Suicidal empathy is a novel phrase, but it it turns out to be the latest flex of an old muscle: the spasm of fury and resentment, the one that readies us to fight. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

thenewworld.co.uk

The strange rise of ‘Suicidal Empathy’

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Brief AI-related digression about the limits of human apprehension of a superior intelligence, over with quickly.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Robert Jenrick drops it into articles now. Where did 'suicidal empathy' come from? New piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. Similar concepts have been knocking about in American evangelical circles for several years. But why have the far right – and some behavioural psychologists – seized on it?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Guess who doesn’t appear in the index of Gordon Brown’s new book.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cricket's almost too easy, isn't it? I'll jinx it now...

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why is Anthropic pressing ahead with AI, even though some of its staff think it could wipe out humanity? Wrote about this recently for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As Anthropic said in May: “Historically, the reach of authoritarian rule has been limited by its dependence on human enforcers...

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very useful, and typically mildly provocative (at one point wonders if the kind of people reading reports like these will fail to keep up with AI).

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