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Explore 300+ filters, including endorsements in leadership elections going back to 2010, in @politics.co.uk's new Political Profiles database: politics.co.uk/database/

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I get a tax cliff edge is a bad policy. But having your main conference coverage on the Sunday being about people earning £100k+ seems a wasted opportunity.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lest we forget, the police took quite some time to decide that it was terrorism when a bomb went off in public with an obvious political motive - presumably because cars

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reckon I could die laughing if 'electoral reform' amounted to the Supplementary Vote. Just the most egregious 'British approach to constitutional reform' possible. Little gained, new problems, actual reform delayed.

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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cutting climate change spending for defence is a false economy. The less we spend on gas and oil, the safer we are. The economy is more resilient, energy pricers are lower and less volatile, and less cash goes into Putin's pocket.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reaction of most elections academics if you suggest introducing SV for any election is roughly similar to the reaction they would give if you proposed setting fire to their favourite pet

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is the European discussion about a possible Russian attack so “oh no, what if” and so little “if you attack we’ll hit you back hard, you know we can.” Russia has its hands full in Ukraine. They should be, and almost certainly are, afraid of the war expanding. Fret less. Prep and deter more.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bless him

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whenever the next Spanish general election is called - and it's looking like sooner rather than later now - it will be the most consequential for over 40 years. The return of the far-right to power will blow up the 1978 constitutional settlement. It could also see Pedro Sánchez end up in prison.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

another thing I learnt about modern dating by secretly being a member of those weird Facebook groups for years: Clare's Law should be seen as one of Theresa May's best achievements as home secretary youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/here-i-am-...

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New blog from me: devolving the Warm Homes Plan is good, but not the Boiler Upgrade Scheme! Energy Sec Miatta Fahnbulleh has announced that the £15bn Warm Homes Plan will be devolved. We think this is good - mayors are well placed to upgrade homes. BUT! www.nesta.org.uk/blog/devolvi...

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Devolving the Warm Homes Plan to local government makes sense - but the Boiler Upgrade Scheme should stay

Three implications of devolving the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God imagine if Starmer had gone ahead with that income tax rise, providing money to knackered state, building fiscal credibility and lowering inflation. At least ducking it let him keep his job Hang on

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's happening in Oleshky looks like the Holodomor on a smaller scale. If you scale it up to all of Ukraine, this is going to be something like 3-4 million dead, similar to the 1930s. More weapons for Ukraine with fewer restraints, and more suppression of Putinist parties and organizations.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s a general vibe that we have done the work of planning reform. Truth is, we’ve barely started.

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Metropolitan Abundance Project @metroabundance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New research from @pewresearch.org: a 20% rent drop (what Austin and Minneapolis achieved through zoning reform) would reduce poverty by up to 26% and child poverty by up to 38%. Housing supply is an anti-poverty policy. www.pew.org/en/research-...

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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty

Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You either bow down to the assumption that voters’ preferences are fixed or at least exogenous. Or you decide that they’re malleable and endogenous - and so prepare to make a political argument. Better, perhaps, to risk dying on your feet than live on your knees.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026

fascinated by the sitcom premise of some braindead influencers holidaying in Dubai and finding themselves accidentally befriending the Assads observer.co.uk/news/interna...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/10/2026

This is just the BBC doing PR for a care company?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BBC switching its local resources from radio to the website has been disastrous for the business model of local newspapers, but you have to balance that against how good it has been for 'the BBC's opponents' and 'random companies who now get a PR hit on the biggest news website in the UK'.

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I listened to Ed Davey on the Today programme this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point. The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unemployment among young people is a big issue! Morally as well as economically. But you solve that by tackling mental health and looking at why the jobs aren't there for this cohort, not by treating adults like overgrown kids and going "yeah, you're your parents responsibility, kthxbai"

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Mark Byrne @markobroin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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