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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026

It also ducked all the actually difficult decisions while sounding like it was making them. The fun of muesli and teetotalism with the health benefits of a booze, fags and coke binge.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Up next: why the New Model Army is Nasebymaxxing the Royalist cucks

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth a read. I think my eyebrows actually did shoot up

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pretty weird article in the Economist on (and against) free public transport. Immediately after saying it has no effect on increasing usage, it blames it for causing major increase in delays due to... increased usage. It goes on to say it doesn't help poor people because rich bankers could benefit

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Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The gaps in reading scores between England and Wales are incredibly stark Average reading scores in Wales are lower than for disadvantaged pupils in England The least disadvantaged group in Wales scores below the average for England @theifs.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com @samfr.bsky.social

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 08/09/2026

They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

*When unions increase wages, who pays?* It's normally hard to answer this Q: unions don't behave randomly, they respond to firm conditions, & firm data is hard to get. Our setting in Norway tackles both... 🧵on our paper (@microsamonomics.bsky.social Alex Willen) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"The study was the first to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism. "The number one thing predicting whether or not somebody is going to hold extremist attitudes is whether they think violence against women is acceptable,"

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This really does look like the Minister had sadly died, rather than... opened a cycle path

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cofnas is obviously a racist, to the extent that if he isn't one then the term has no meaning. Sacking academics for their views - as opposed to research fraud or personal behaviour - isn't a great move though. It's not akin to being a newspaper columnist or party representative.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another South Wales valley on fire

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face" pleads voter of 'Leopards Eating People's Faces Party', and lifelong winner of 'Tasiest Face!' competition, as chosen by every breed of leopard and big cat in the history of the planet.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One reason why I fundamentally do not relate to this fear in any country is because at core I think that if your national identity is so thin, so weak, that it can be undone by the colour of the skin of the people who carry its banner, then you fundamentally have no faith in your culture.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's quite ironic that this "quote" by Darwin is fabricated, and obviously so to anyone who knows anything about Darwin.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is quite a fascinating map, from the perspective of national identity

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pretty much the best indicator of whether someone will be a terrorist isn't religiosity, ethnicity or ideological fervour. It's whether he has a history of domestic violence.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Netanyahu and the pro-Israel right are fine with coddling right-wing antisemites, so long as they are sufficiently pro-Israel. (See: Orbán or Le Pen.) Now, apparently the Jewish left is fine with coddling white nationalists, if they are sufficiently anti-Israel. jewishcurrents.org/curt-mills-a...

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MAGA Firebrand Curt Mills Will Speak at a Jewish Left Conference.…

One speaker plans to drop out of the conference over Mills’s participation.

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blahblah22-97.bsky.social @blahblah22-97.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I will admit… I probably got this one wrong… then again I didn’t see him being stupid enough to put the most divisive politician possible into an unsackable second most powerful position in the country where she has limited experience… Feels like we’ve been sold the same lies as Starmer…

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm guilty as charged, your honour.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I have never forgiven Serena Williams for stabbing her older sister in the back and not just conceding every match she played against Venus, as Natural Law must demand.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The only way Britain is ungovernable is that none of the qualities parties - and ultimately voters - look for in leaders relate to actually governing.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In the 1980s, Levi's had an ad campaign where a silent hunk stripped to his boxers in a launderette. The adolescent lust spread across the land. So much so, he released a single. However, the moment he opened his mouth, the vast horniness appeal vanished in an instant. Al Carns is the Levi's guy.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This reminds me of Golda Meir's response to a proposal for a late night curfew for women to prevent sexual violence. "But it’s the men who are attacking the women. If there’s to be a curfew, let the men stay at home, not the women." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Teens will get social media curfew and chatbot ban

Plans to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer go further than Australia’s with a total ban for under-16s and restrictions meant to stop unhealthy late-night scrolling

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please don't make me want Streeting.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

They raise money like Stalin, but spend it like Milton Friedman. I'm not certain this is a good combination.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I really don't understand* why the BBC chooses to go for these diminishing headlines that makes the victim look crazy. There was another one about a young woman getting £150k compensation 'after boss misses a meeting'. *(Ok. It's sexism, but still.)

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 05/06/2026

🧵/ How Wales voted at the 2026 Senedd election: our new study based on reanalysing the data behind our successful pre-election MRP identifies the key demographic and political divides behind the new Welsh party system yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I wonder how far away are we from Farage coming out and saying Mossad stole his shoe.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Asking business to sell their products at a loss makes as much sense as your boss asking you to pay *him* for your work instead of vice-versa.

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

There are many reasons to criticise Starmer's party, and it was certainly an incoherent project. But to describe the economic policy of a government that has increased borrowing by £100bn and passed the Employment + Renters Rights Acts in this way is risible. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

"He was not so much committed to growth as dependent on it to keep things going, for redistribution was ruled out. His economic policy is fiscal rectitude, support for innovation and “entrepreneurs”, and subsidies for foreign investment in the UK. Starmer’s Party rejects, with grim determination, public ownership even of natural monopolies. These must remain “investible”. Starmer’s Party’s conservatism extended to being deeply Unionist, even in relation to Northern Ireland. It even started to believe in Brexit, and trumpeted minor trade deals just as the Tories had. It aped the Tories and Reform on immigration."

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Social Democrat, Libertarian globalist, unsurprisingly. Pretty sure I'm more Left-wing economically, as I'm basically a Nordic model fan, yet it says Sweden is 'Far Left' - a country that has no minimum wage, and low corporate taxes.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

this is why I'm really annoyed by the rayner reporting, it's really easy to read "trusts" and "tax" and assume there's something dodgy at play when this is the absolute bare minimum you need to do if you have a child with a severe disability and any expectation of an inheritance at all

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Spare a thought for the future children of Boris's children. Always to be denied high office

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

There should be a convention that if the party is in government, new leaders should only be chosen by MPs, not party members.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Inside you there are two wolves:

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I cannot abide this 'we are just smol beans with a majority of 170' attitude.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This kind of crap from the BoD really undermines those of us who are trying to push against antisemitism across the political spectrum. Infuriating.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have been to a lot of places, Including some that on paper are considerably poorer, and nowhere has filled me with the same kind of despair that the Russian provinces did in the 2000s. Maybe Rhyl.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I firmly believe that a serious and sober call for low business taxes, flexible labour markets, private provision in healthcare, & higher across-the-board taxes to make the UK a modern northern European social democracy would instantly be dismissed as the insane ravings of delusional neoliberal here

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

My long running theory that buying a car is one of the most radicalising things someone can do hits another datapoint

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Watching the Welsh-language coverage, and it's very noticeable how many non-white Welsh-speaking candidates, commentators and reporters there are. It wouldn't have been the case even twenty years ago.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Freud on how he felt leaving Vienna in 1938: « I saw the scientific society I had founded dissolved, our institutions destroyed, our printing press taken over by the invaders, the books I had published confiscated or reduced to pulp, and my children expelled from their professions »

Entrance to the Freud Museum in London on a sunny summer day, blue plaque with his name on the right

The original psychoanalysis couch and Freud’s green chair brought to London from Vienna in 1938

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Subsidising energy consumption in the face of both a short-term supply shock and the long-term need to decarbonise. Bad for the economy, bad for the planet, bad for the world's poor. And *if* you favour a wealth tax (I am sceptical but there's a case) spending it on *this" is just idiotic.

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