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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 31/07/2026

Interesting, though unsurprising

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is perhaps the thing that's annoyed me most about this government. They have had an opportunity to do something important AND in their political self-interest and instead chose to ignore it.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When I moved to London 5 years ago, I did not think that I would ever wonder if it was safe to move through the city just because of the color of my skin. Today, this is the case. Yet again. Far-right agitators and thugs are roaming the streets. Empowered and emboldened by the rhetoric and politics

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Miatta Fahnbulleh, Jess Phillips and Alex Davies Jones; so far all 3 ministerial resignations are women, 2 directly responsible for delivering on the manifesto pledge to halve violence against women and girls. There has been real simmering anger in the women's PLP about not being listened to.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I understand where Labour MPs on the “it’s too soon, best thing is for Keir to govern well and go in 2028” train are coming from. I used to think that myself. But the core problem is Keir won’t and can’t govern well.

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Louise Haigh's essay in @renewaljournal.bsky.social is a substantive intervention from Labour's soft left. She wants "not to abandon fiscal discipline, but to redefine it, so that it supports ... the long-term renewal the UK economy". Some thoughts below. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...

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A new fiscal framework to renew Britain

03 Renewal_Special Edition_Haigh (1)03 Renewal_Special Edition_Haigh (1).pdf83 KBdownload-circle For too long, people in our country have felt powerless. Since the Global Financial Crisis, living s...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

my politics are well to the left of basically everyone irl i know. but acknowledging tradeoffs weirdly comes off as centrist coded

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Ahead of the local elections, here's an easy guide of how best to assess the results as they come in, including the best metrics to use and some historical benchmarks. It's on the longer side, but is split into sections and filled with lots of (hopefully) useful data, and completely free-to-read.

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How to assess the 2026 local elections

A cut-out-and-keep guide of benchmarks for the 2026 council elections

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Reform, in theory, could have been a gift to Labour: they divided the Right-wing vote. All Labour had to do was govern in a way that held their Center-Left coalition together Instead, they chose to act foolishly and blow up their own coalition in pursuit of a voting base with no interest in them

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 12/04/2026

I share this sentiment, and I do hope that the EU won't take this as a lesson that with autocrats, it is always best simply to sit back and wait. But for the moment, let's celebrate with the Hungarian citizens for this success of democratic voting!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Entertaining as this spat is, it contains not-a-flicker of recognition as to WHY this might be happening. For 16 months, a tax-exile-oligarch-owned, mostly right-wing press, has abused the privilege of these exclusive private sessions, to misrepresent the gov't on every issue. This is the FO stage.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

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At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’

Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

There is something patently absurd in all the moaning about EU unity as a contrast to America when we are now in week 5 of a US government shutdown that increasingly looks permanent

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Yeah, I've been prepared to give ridiculous amounts of benefit of doubt, but the cowardly refusal to call out a snowballing far right is inexcusable and unforgivable abdication of duty.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Look I know it's a sjot inheritance and we have deep rooted structural economic and political problems and switching PMs won't solve them. But saying "fascist hooliganism is bad and we're gonna nick the culprits" is the easy part, and yet he is just. Not. Doing. It.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If IMF forecasts an improved fiscal path for UK and debt lower than peers, why has the gilt market been uniquely picked on? It hasn't been.

Chart showing (in grey) changed in 10yr govt bond yields YTD for G7 members, with UK 10yr in the middle of the pack.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy" This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.

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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Let's not forget we got here after the last far-right candidate was banned over assistance from Russia Standards were upheld and there was no vote of revenge against the elites Protecting democracy doesn't and shouldn't only happen at the ballot box

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The government borrowed £151 billion last financial year. Which was £14.6 billion more than the OBR estimate *last month*. And yet their forecasts for five years time are being used as the entire basis for public policy decision making.

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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Replacing editors with algorithms might be the most costly decision in human history. Literally trillions of dollars will be lost, and that’s not even starting on the number of lives that will be lost.

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Y'days post: Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill. mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/fall... Vaccination rates are falling. It is the media as much as populists who are to blame for this.

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Falling confidence in vaccination illustrates how the media’s obsession with balance and impartiality, and its aversion to regulation, can kill.

In the United States it is easy to view falling rates of vaccination for diseases like measles as a simple consequence of a right wing pop...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/02/2025

This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. Fuck the GOP. Fuck Maga. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin. Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/02/2025

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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shez12.bsky.social @shez12.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A decadent end to a decadent (American) empire …

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I passionately disagree with Will. There are at least 7 great ironies of Brexit. His is a corker - but here are six more... 1/7

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shez12.bsky.social @shez12.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Time to bring back the noble Brythonic languages

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

One way to destroy an effective American strategic tool is to have decision-making that is so paralysed that even your closest European friends and allies start ignoring you.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Georgian state is openly beating journalists & its own citizens in the street. Opposition group Coalition For Change has just had its office stormed & its staff beaten. The same building has UK staff too. Where is the international response? Where are the UK/US/EU sanctions? #GeorgiaProtests

JUST IN: Around 50 Titushky broke into the foyer of our Besiki Business Center, and assaulted people, including our members. This is politician Koba Khabazi, covered in blood. UK Visa & Immigration Office, NDI Georgia in the same building. #TerrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

Koba Khabazi, a member of @CoalitionGEO, is shown with his head covered in blood. He was just brutally assaulted by titushky also near the Georgian Parliament building. He stated that he was exiting an office elevator when approximately 50 people attacked him.

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shez12.bsky.social @shez12.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It’s only a matter of time before any poster with a article or Substack that needs reading realises they’re better of here

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Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

14 years. Fourteen years which started with a couple of school kids going out to paint anti-Assad graffiti, sparking a revolution. Fourteen years of protests and repression. Of war, destruction and mass murder by a desperate regime. 14 years, after which the tide has turned.

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