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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyway, happy anniversary to this tweet:

Matt Zarb-Cousin:

Zack Polanski is one of the most talented political leaders this country has produced in decades and the only one capable of stopping Nigel Farage. The Greens will outpoll Labour by next year and be the second largest party in terms of membership. The sky is the limit.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You and Yours is by far the best consumer affairs programme on any medium. Less tabloid than its rivals, and more practical on a day-by-day basis too. In a world of increasingly complex consumer markets, axing it feels like the opposite of public service. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“None of your listeners will ever have heard of the Aarhus Convention” - Andrew Griffiths clearly hasn’t a clue that smart, well-informed people actually exist.

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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to Brandon Flowers’ new Country-Americana flavoured album and, annoyingly (for Flowers is undoubtedly a knob) it is really good.

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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

KEMINAISSANCE latest

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This, on the day after my 15 year Times subscription ended, made me properly lol

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No Chris - we don’t compromise with hate.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I say this as a Scots Protestant who grew up in Ireland in the 90s: anyone who wants to march through communities where they are patently unwelcome is a thug, and there should be no moral equivalence between these thugs and those who want to live peacefully in their own homes without intimidation.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chris Bryant has always been unfit for high office, but someone so singularly clumsy as him is especially ill-suited to Northern Ireland.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So I've had a go at imagining what this return to two-tier local government in Scotland might look like and ngl: I don't hate it. www.google.com/maps/d/u/4/e...

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Regional and Community Authorities v0.2 - Google My Maps

Regional and Community Authorities v0.2

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lib Dem pledge to cut fuel duty by 10p is depressingly bad policy: poorly targeted, expensive (£5bn), and it weakens incentives to switch to EVs and reduce usage.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is good news. If you follow it up by doubling the number of Trading Standards Officers (which could be done at a fraction of the cost) the government could make real headway in removing the scourge from our high streets.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Several years ago I was driving solo round Western Canada, so I shared my location with my mother so she could easily see where I was. Years later, I realised I had never turned this off. Fortunately, I never go anywhere remotely interesting and my mother forgot how ‘Find My Friends’ works anyway.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A reminder that good policies everywhere attract the most outrageous naysayers, and the best thing to do is just push on anyway:

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

While the 2000 US Presidential election was eventually remembered for 'hanging chads', at the time it was expected that the major scandal would be push polling in the Republican primary. JL Partners increasingly looking like new Karl Rove.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember a couple of years ago seeing a brilliant tax lawyer on the BBC making exactly this point. The “I’m a rural kid” look was possibly a bit much though…

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

First on energy and now on West Bank settlements, the UK's Ed Miliband has emerged as that rarest of center-left Anglophone politicians: a guy who actually does stuff www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements

Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think I know who the ringleader of the Dover protests might be. youtu.be/oJ-9R6NCZ0A?...

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Jimmy's Secret Army

YouTube video by David Tingley

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Another banger. “Can’t Let Go” is probably Ferry’s greatest, most evocative solo track.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolute banger from start to finish. Top tier.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is very welcome. The standards process in Scotland is a travesty and the whole system needs overhauled. The system has been weaponised by councillors from one party in particular (I'll give you one guess) as well as some bureaucrats who want to avoid public scrutiny.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah this is a huge issue. Doesn't have to be written exams, it can be vivas or presentations - but the status quo isn't viable.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's wrong that journalism is silenced by letters containing falsehoods. And it's wrong that there is never any consequence — not for the client who tells them, and not for the lawyers who relay them.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/08/2026

The UK’s willingness to blow up its two genuine world-leading industries (finance and higher education) is quite something.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Has Greater Manchester borrowed Highland’s returning officer?

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🌹 Scottish Labour folk! If you don't subscribe to my SEC updates (why the heck don't you?!) you can find my latest report here: stuartmaclennan.substack.com/p/sec-report...

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SEC Report – July 2026

The aftermath, and the future...

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I used to sit on the Societies Exec of Edinburgh University Students' Association. We once got an application for a 'Pro Evolution Soccer Society' and I immediately referred it to the Sports Union on the basis that I *genuinely* thought they were a Darwin-supporting football team.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Honestly? It's much better than Marra's vid.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So you’re: A) criticising the government less than 24 hours after departing your role B) admitting you didn’t fund a major policy proposal And you think this makes you look… good?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is very disappointing. Such an important and undervalued brief which was for years held by a succession of uninterested itinerants. A prisons minister who genuinely cared and who was starting to see results.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, like every other incoming Prime Minister. I find myself utterly bemused by this bizarre, deliberately ignorant, reporting as though it is any way normal for a leader to announce appointments before they’re PM.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s not the job of the taxpayer to pick up the security costs for MPs when they’re not performing public duties. Reform MPs - Farage especially - spend most of their time grifting, lining their own pockets, acting as media commentators, etc. Why should we pay for their security 24/7?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

*Farage removes all his clothes in public and takes a dump on the floor* Chris Mason: "some might say this is not the act of a PM in waiting but others note in today's politics the public appreciate authenticity."

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

**UK public support net zero, but underestimate UK achievement to date**

"Thinking about the government's target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, how much progress, if any, do you think the UK has made towards achieving this target?"

**Long way / less than halfway** — 50%

**Don't know** — 28%

**Most of the way / More than halfway** — 8%

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*All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,040 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 17th - 18th June 2026. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+)*

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Every once in a while you get Millennial Democratic activists bleating at how they would use their big American computers to dominate any election in Great Britain and they'd come over, face off against a 56 year old bloke called Malcolm, who has egg in his beard, and they'd spontaneously combust.

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Appreciate the NEC is a political and not a legal body but was there ever a justification given for blocking Burnham from standing in Gorton but not Makerfield?

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

‼️ LABOUR PEOPLE: Moray CLP will be doing internal election nominations tomorrow lunchtime. Anyone seeking a nomination please get in touch and I will happily circulate to the meeting.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is *nonsense*. I wish Burnham well, and may even visit to campaign for him (but I'll be backing Angie for leader when it comes). Whatever comes of all this we urgently need to reform our rules for leadership elections to reflect the fact Westminster isn't the centre of the universe anymore.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The diagnosis for why we’re so unpopular actually is spot on. Blair was perfectly willing to compromise with the electorate to get things done, but once he’d decided what he wanted to get done he drew lines and would take on those who disagreed. Starmer's spinelessness is the worst of all worlds.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

About time. The silence of Scottish Labour MPs after Anas (rightly) called for Starmer to do the decent thing and go was disgraceful.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For anyone who still cares, this is the first time that Scotland hasn't had a Ewing family parliamentarian since that brief two-month interlude in 1979. #sp26

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Case in point. The Greens are undergoing their own Militant, except more racist and willingly embraced by their leader when he decided to rewrite history about antisemitism in the Corbyn years.

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Stuart MacLennan @sensiblestu.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is a problem that could be solved in 2/3 years with some political will and (in budgetary terms) relatively cheaply. The spillover benefits in terms of policing, public realm would be considerable. The trouble is that "recruiting 1,500 new trading standards officers" isn't sexy on a leaflet.

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