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Mark Byrne @markobroin.bsky.social · 12h

Britain is not good at getting people into city centers. (Sign up for nice charts centreforcities.substack.com/p/good-growt...)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry kids no social care for you...

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 16h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14h

So, the big speech. My takeaway broadly that of others here: it wasnt a classic. It had too much cliche. Pulled a few punches *But* It was probably the most refreshing and significant speech for... over a decade? A proper political arguement, with faith in the power of politics for positive change

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rally is as packed as anything I've been to at Conferance - with a huge range of excellent, passionate speakers. The fight back against the EHRC guidance and to rebuild trans rights starts here.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This isn't because of either the triple lock, or the housing crisis, or the GFC, or student loans, or social care. It's a combination. Govt mistakes, then fudging over decades resulting in cumulative failures. Again, nothing is irreversible here but no-one in Westminster is being 100% honest.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not exactly fatalistic to say that pensioners in 20/30/40 years time are currently on track to have a much poorer retirement than pensioners now.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like part of the inability from leading politicians to have any honest conversations around pensions, is because they have to face up to the fact that future generations have less assets, have much worse pvt pensions, and will ultimately have to work longer than previous generations.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American Liberals and Leftists should not be surprised if America faces a lot of scepticism even after Trump is gone from Canadians, Europe and the rest of the world as long as Democrats and DSA preach norms of international law they refuse to implement towards their own country

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one raises a fascinating philosophical question: if you list your flat for £200k more than it is worth, have you really listed it, or are you just posting pictures of your home's interior online?

Georgia Dean and her husband recently took their property off the market.

He bought the two-bedroom flat in Haggerston, east London, for £470,000 in 2014. But the mortgage rate was due to rise from 1.6 per cent to 4.8 per cent: renting the flat out no longer made financial sense.

They listed it in June for £650,000, a below-inflation increase. An estate agent told them “no one would sniff around if the price stayed above £600,000”, said Dean, who works in product at a tech start-up.

In the two months before the couple pulled the listing, it attracted only two viewings.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ngl "2 doggers, a lad out on the rob for diesel, a fly tipper and an actual terrorist get swept up into an international incident" would be a really funny premise for a slice of life British comedy

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

Its amazing how little impact all of the grey zone events, and war in Ukraine, have had in UK. Where is the comms campaign even Starmer promised. Other countries are rebuilding their bunkers - and what are we doing? Where's the sign of life in UK politics. Its like autopilot bsky.app/profile/step...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/08/2025

So this is an excuse to tell a story from a recent memorial for a lady I knew, respected and admired despite disagreeing on almost everything political. She was a Greenham Common woman and was going to cut the fence. But she wanted to do it right. So her and her friends did a midnight dummy run...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

what if we kissed ... in the middle of the night near RAF Fairford

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alex Horne: "So, RAF Fairford, balacalavas, should have been an absolute doddle." Greg Davies: "Obviously". Alex Horne: "Let's see how Jimmy did, shall we?" Jimmy Carr: Face in hands

Greg Davies and Alex Horne on Taskmaster

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's not to say there aren't economic benefits of industrialisation, I think there are, but they won't look the same as they did in the past and it still requires a lot of demand which just doesn't much exist for a mid-sized open economy in Northern Europe

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last decade has also seen a lot of oppression-biased technological change.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 25/09/2026

FFS. Really important infrastructure projects shouldn't be subject to the whims of whoever happens to be in Downing Street. HS2 is a clusterfuck because twats just keep changing their minds. We should commit to big, important projects and see them through, not faff about every time we get a new PM.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Easy to be dismissive of government's long term climate plans when global emissions keep rising, but it's important to recognise how remarkable the latest fossil fuel phase out plans from France, the Netherlands, and now Germany are. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536237...

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'Only the starting line': Germany commits to fossil fuel phase-out by 2045

Europe's largest economy targets complete departure from oil, gas, and coal in new fossil fuel transition roadmap

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hope.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For Burnham to reach his (tricky) goals on council housebuilding, he'll want his cash to go as far as possible - we've set out how: Four takeaways: 1. Focus on cities 2. Give councils balance sheet flexibility 3. Get mayors to distribute cash 4. Be broad-minded on defining council housebuilding:

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a new paper out today on what Andy Burnham needs to do to achieve “the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period”. A coherent (I hope) to-do list, explaining the contingencies and pre-empting potential missteps. Do read the paper in full, but here's a 🧵

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't know what's going on with Purplebricks. Either a scandalous and unprecedented error by HMRC, or Purplebricks lied to me, and simply failed to pay their taxes on time.

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of amazing how underappreciated “make the buses go faster” would save service hours, free up bus availability, and actually sell more fares, all of which are positives on a transit agency’s balance sheet

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

the authoritarian internationale is real and can hurt you

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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Liberal Democrat join the Reform/Tory circus in promising tax cuts they have no idea how to pay for - the coalition govt showed us how this ends: trashing both public services and the public finances

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even leaving aside the unseriousness of pledging £17bn of tax cuts, I don’t understand how ‘tax cuts, but not until 2034’ is a good way to address the cost of living squeeze.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

"The seven transgressed boundaries are: climate change, change in biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, modification of biogeochemical flows, introduction of novel entities, and ocean acidification." @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems

21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/09/2026

"the proposal, which would eventually increase the threshold for paying income tax to £15,000 and raise the level at which people pay the 40p higher rate by about £6,000, would be paid for entirely by increased growth" - and presumably by pixies and fairies

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seeing a lot of this, and firstly, I don’t think it’s necessarily true. The Liberal Democrats could well end up in government after the next election. Secondly, having a “serious vibe” matters. Saying the Growth Fairy will give you £17bn for tax cuts is not serious.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The threshold raise was a complete disasterclass by the 2010 Liberal Democrats: it narrowed the tax base, they got no credit for it in government, why on earth would you want to do it again when the public realm and the public finances are in a worse state?

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Impossibly funny graphic from the Trade Remedies Authority.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If HMRC can't or won't challenge, or if a challenge fails, the government should close the loophole and change the law. Otherwise, we're going to see lots of high-end properties being sold with five teeny flats.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a comparison, Lombardy, which has "only" 10 million inhabitants, way less than the population served by Metrolik, run between 2,200 and 2,500 trains per day.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like, it feels unfair that our political economy should be going "you can't expect to afford a family home, you're barely 40" at the same time as your actually existing body is going "fucking hell mate, 40, I'm thinking of packing it in soon". But that is the reality we are living in.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

regarding the "does whatever offensively young age certain FT columnists claim to be count as middle aged" discourse: One issue is that, for many people, objective, chronological middle age now kicks in without before they get the "boring but financially stable phase" they remember your parents in

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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Trump's approval for the economy has gone so low it actually broke the scale on the Ipsos graph

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I am not done with her”. The language of a gangster. It’s a disgrace. Our legal system facilitates it, and the Government won’t act.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The SRA may appeal - I can't comment on prospects because it's not my area. but the Government shouldn't run the risk of having the solicitors' regulator unable to regulate the profession properly. The Government should change the law.

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Infrastory @infrastory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Standardization: an underappreciated part of so much of the economy and much more. Read the latest Infrastory: infrastory.substack.com/p/the-standa...

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The Standardization Revolution

Making the plugs plugs, and the elevators lift.

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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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Dame Sara Khan DBE @sarakhandbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know what it's going to take for UK Gov to address the threat of extremism in Britain. I want to make it clear: Neither the Home Office, MHCLG or indeed Whitehall have a proper analysis of the scale and impact of the problem, nor a proper strategic plan. Our national cohesion is threatened.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a chart from the post.... quite a change in a single generation.

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