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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The flagbearing party of the nativist right ends its conference bruised by fresh revelations about corruption... ...And organised groups of blackshirts march through the streets, pushing irregular arrivals back onto the front pages. An ecosystem in action, pursuing a time-tested salience strategy.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Response from Burnham will be important. These are actual fascists. They must be treated as such. Not 'concerned citizens'.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A race-science enthusiast was filmed in a private members' club boasting to a donor that the EC will not do anything about breaches of the law. The EC not waking up this morning with a strong response is a pretty significant dereliction of duty.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Decolonising history is woke leftist nonsense" latest.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Really looking forward to the hysterical media circus and endless inquiries surrounding James Orr's role as a Professor at Cambridge. Oh.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is why I find the whole ‘oh yes we need to show the public migration is handed control’ stuff from labour so stupid as well as immoral. The public at large isn’t basing their concerns on evidence or migration rates! How much clearer can we see this

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don’t know if we deserved her, but we got to share this world with Dolly for eighty years. What a gift.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember when Labour lost the 2023 by-election in Uxbridge by 495 votes and the leadership decided that meant Sadiq Khan needed to rethink whether or not cleaning up the literal air was a good idea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indeed. SS embodies the whole sorry mess, in that hardly anyone in it ever saw Arday as a person. For Cambridge he was a way to buff their credentials, to be discarded when he became embarrassing. For Sodha he was a prop to air grievances about “gender ideology”.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well. Glad you had your fun, I guess.

Sonia Sodha post on X: A lot of chin-stroking over on BlueSky about why there's so much interest in the Arday story. It's because it beautifully and hilariously exposes the intellectual dishonesty of your worldview guys, of course you don't get it! 🤪

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I know the air conditioning debate is polarising but I've been working part-time while on holiday and my 3 hours of work per day (in an air conditioned flat) have been more productive than *entire weeks* in my overheating home in London for the past few months.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You can't bring down the cost of living if farm yields are hit by drought. You can't improve the quality of people's lives if their bodies boil at work. A new govt with a polling bump during record-breaking heat is the best chance we've had for a while for a leader to settle this once and for all.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A quarter of voters in the safest of safe Reform seats chose a dustbin over Farage.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today in Unintentionally Hilarious Automated Responses.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was at a meeting recently about the politics of "Gen Z". One of the contributors had some serious concerns about banning the under 16 digital ban and suggested that society/ politics would be better safeguarded by banning the over 60s from using social media. I can't stop thinking about this.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Grownups: "People need to see a balance between long-term reforms and immediate, tangible changes" Also Grownups: "MAKING BUSES AND ELECTRICITY A BIT CHEAPER IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO" I'm sure I'll find many reasons to be critical soon but there's real cognitive dissonance/ bad faith at work here.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This just strikes me as such a good way to build long-term campaigning capacity. The DSA, the Bloc (RIP) and other groups prioritise building long-term infrastructure for communities but it's rare to actually see a candidate consciously do this in a Global North context.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For a whole bunch of reasons, both personal and professional, I was properly moved hearing the Prime Minister use his first address to say: “I will place the care of people at the heart of everything I do”.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/07/2026

I think after this Britain should give the Falklands to Spain, as a treat

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I forgot the Bronze match was happening. Switched it on at 24 minutes and it seems like maybe the French team also forgot?

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy Flying Ant Day to all who observe.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One of the biggest misunderstandings of politics in our time is that the Left has become all about identity politics. The opposite is the case. The Left has (nearly everywhere) completely given up on shaping, representing, and mobilizing identities. Instead, the far right has successfully done it.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Consequences for Farage are objectively a good thing. But if you need proof that we won't get far by going after only the most visible parts of an ecosystem, consider this: The *Labour party* is unable to decide whether a strong commitment to net-zero is disqualifying for the role of Chancellor.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A backbencher recently told me they were worried that swathes of the PLP would see Burnham's coronation as enough *on its own* to change the party's fortunes, to "change the vibes a bit" without a substantively different policy offer. The new govt has less time than it thinks to prove this wrong.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Next week, deep in the Treasury: “Claude, what are my options if I want to proscribe, detain or deport ‘productivity growth’?”

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Saladin in 1189:

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Simeone is what happens when the international rules based system breaks down.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There is always another frontier. ¡No pasarán!

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To use a football metaphor (rare for me), we need to play both the ball and the man. Men like Farage can be exposed as corrupt, recalled and booted out of office. But we *also* have to understand and dismantle the much larger ecosystems and agendas behind them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nigel Farage: The mysterious crypto firm backed by Reform's biggest donor

Tether is a giant in crytocurrency, an industry that Nigel Farage believes the UK should be embracing.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Strong causal evidence that not cooperating with the radical right strengthens the mainstream right.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every project of ethnic cleansing has aimed not only to destroy a population but to destroy its soul, its power to create or experience joy and the spaces in which those who survive trauma can experience normality. Another terrible, tragic day in Gaza. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Palestinians mourn Gaza World Cup screenings organiser killed in Israeli strike

Aid worker Mohammed al-Wahidi had become a prominent humanitarian figure during the Israel-Hamas war.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Constitution nerds: As I understand it, there is no 'resignation' from Parliament, you just have to take one of these weird ancient jobs with a title that bars you from being an MP. Who makes those appointments and is there any precedent for the appointment not being made when requested?

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage goes full Trump with the endless self pity. A few immediate thoughts: - Sidesteps IPSO - Challenge to Burnham framing new PM as afraid of electorate for next 2 years - Depending on timeline, if he holds Clacton it makes him the main character/story again during Burnham’s first 100 days.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What do we think the Farage announcement will be? Wrong answers only. I'll go first: "Nigel Farage" was a 30-year satirical performance art piece funded by the European Union to test the limits of British irony.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

LePen appeal decision being handed down imminently. Farage making an announcement on his future at 2PM. Big day for corrupt would-be autocrats.

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If there isn’t at least one newspaper with the words “Trump Card” on its front page tomorrow then I’m sorry but the collapse of print media should no longer be anyone’s concern.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/07/2026

Starmer at the final, Burnham welcoming the parade, like a really tensely negotiated Christmas for children of divorce.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!

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Satbir Singh @satbirsingh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

DRC leading England in the first seven minutes is genuinely something to behold.

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