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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Come find the team at Labour Party Conference. Incredibly proud of our brilliant programme of panels this year!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"This is not my Zionism" writes the president of the UK Jewish Board of Deputies today. Good for you, but this is the Zionism that exists. Is it about time to start treating Israel as a real state and not as a fairy tale?

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just immeasurably proud of all those in my community joining the government in showing moral clarity and leadership rjgordon.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

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An Open Letter on Settler Violence and British Sanctions

I’ve witnessed and experienced settler violence first-hand.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

now and forever not my chief rabbi!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Once had an argument about this on a date. I'll bang the drum of it's a platform design issue. The same 'safety' use could be served by an app where you click your kids name, get their location and it pings them that you've looked. The design normalises being able to track without them knowing

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we oppose any actions by any party that undermine the prospects for future peace" Yeh babe, one of those actions might be building illegal settlements! might it be worth looking into creating some consequences for that, Phil? Perhaps no trading with them maybe?

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Will also say beyond my general disavowal of this letter written in the name of my community, there is something deeply pernicious about the phrase "extremist settlers". Being a settler is an extremist thing to do, no matter the attempts at normalisation of that act by its cheerleaders.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm sorry this has sent me, I can't stop laughing! Maurice goes to Dollywood

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Americans here talk about affluenza and consumerism and burrito taxis - the European version is that basically as soon as we have a roof over our head, ~every marginal £ or € is spent on holidays and so Europe now just permanently has a LOT of people on holiday

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A good reminder as ever that I have to actually read family values! Also meant to say lovely to see you in Margate, hope rest of your stay was delightful

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes probably too oversimplifying as you say. On reflection mostly I think what might be interesting (and slightly distinct from collapsing everything into one) is thinking how her analysis on the tyranny of the workplace might have useful parallels in analysing information space.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Great piece. Wonder how this dovetails with Elizabeth Anderson's view of workplaces as authoritarian private governments. Or at least, do you think there's value in linking the workers' rights agenda, as one way of pushing back on private power, to this set of proposals, or is that too bloated?

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Did you get to see Icke's Oedipus? Thought it broadly worked too

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/06/2026

Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Think this cuts across: Worldview, you have to align people with your worldview Communication, you can't do this alone online you need public to become cheerleaders Electoral path, probably will require some quiet collaboration

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is great Josh, I'd probably add one more criteria. "Ability to build a team". Seems vital, and sorely lacking, to have an understanding of how to motivate others to take leadership and act together in service of a project. Rather than top down 'do as I say' management.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

everyone at the @uclpolicylab.bsky.social office gave a little cheer when we heard this news today! very well deserved and good luck!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

popped back to the other place and my feed is currently full of fancam allegations of a torrid affair between Wes Streeting and Owen Jones c.2010.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Any effective 'whole society' effort against antisemitism does involve asking other groups, whether they are professional bodies or communal orgs, to marginalise and criticise within their own camp, sometimes at great difficulty. Zero prospect of achieving that if we won't do that ourselves.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

she should read audre lord, the masters bob will never dismantle the masters hair salon!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hi Muswell hill expert here! This is not funny leafy north London erstwhile labour safe seat MPs only do this when they are in extreme distress!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Avoided relegation!!! We're in no overall control baby!!!! It's extra time and a Lib-Lab coalition is our last hope. I feel like Gordon in 2010, clutching at straws

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm now watching a Haringey Council nailbiter. Last ward to declare. Greens one seat away from taking the council off Labour outright rather than NOC. I imagine this is what you lot feel when you're worried your team is going to be relegated!

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Almost every plotline in the narrative of Britain’s malaise, on both left and right, among the apolitical and hyper-online, can be traced back to local government" @anooshc.bsky.social on how years of Westminister failure is turning up at council doors www.newstatesman.com/politics/ele...

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The Town Hall Theory of Everything

In local elections, road problems rank ahead of the cost of living

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I fear that "the scythe's remorseless swing" is an excellent name for the next version of the Centrist Dad band

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Probably says more about my mental state on the week of locals/devolved elections, but bawling at Jo and Kush's friendship on #RaceAcrossTheWorld

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Being a history nerd is back baby!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's why I find the comparison to Mamdani infuriating. Say what you will about ZM but that is a guy steeped in democratic socialism, he's digging up niche things from the 20th c like 'sewer socialism'. Zack couldn't name an economist until a week ago.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My memory of that situational judgement test was looking at the options, seeing the one that I'd actually do (confronting the issue head on) and deliberately choosing the 'british culturally correct' answer (not saying what you think and referring it through a process/superior)

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Phew, was worried I'd been wrong my entire life.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Must know is the wheels on the bus "all through the town" vs "all day long" a Anglo-American schism or was my family/school just wrong?

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

How did you get a bollard?? I worked at an national trust property in London we had a car cross the pavement and smash into our front wall twice in the space of 13 months. I tried the council, TFL. Eventually got told a bollard would not prevent vehicles, which struck me as the key USP of a bollard!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Exactly! But just thought it was so fascinating how baked in the deference was from such an early stage, to the extent that it permeated the outsourced L&D. It hits my other hobby horse of if CO ministers who are interested in CS reform are ever curious enough to audit civil service learning.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I think some of it is specifically civil service culture, though. I remember being on a fast stream training where we roleplayed briefing a minister. The facilitator played the minister as a proper bully. When I pushed back, I was chastised and basically told your job is to be obsequious.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

interested to know the finances of if you switched to a fee charged on every new phone, computer, TV etc at the point of purchase. Has the added benefits of households with more devices pay more (a proxy for progressivity), incentivises second hand markets and holding on to devices longer.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

God it's been a mad few years. Luckily by that point my team was doing the fun stuff re Russia (impounding superyachts...)

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Having worked at DfT on supply chain security over the pandemic will say that the vibe feel very similar to Feb 2020 where those of us working on it could see the tidal wave coming, but everyone else was still wishful thinking that it wouldn't be that bad/reach us!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

tears, literal tears, streaming down my face at that final. Never underestimate the power of a mum and her fawning gay colleague!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Bagehot was good on this back in the summer, www.economist.com/britain/2025... Do think it has a longlineage in posh sponsors in and around the arts, Alan Hollinghurst's latest Our evenings has a fictional family of the sort.

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Aux barricades, boomers!

The rise of the revolutionary retiree

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Extra points if it's the backing for a shower scene

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

the legacy Meredith has. Surely we're getting Tegan and Sara soon!

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Episode kicked off with another Feist needle drop, ended with a t.a.t.u. remix, get ready the 00s are back. it's high camp

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The online review analogy is brilliant, such a clear way of describing why old-school triangulation is dead. I've been talking about it in all our sessions on comms, narrative and campaigning since reading it!

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UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The education system is failing too many working-class pupils, but we can turn it around. Jonathan Slater, Former Perm Sect at the Department for Education on BBC Radio 4 Today, discussing a new report from the UCL Policy Lab on how we can improve standards for poorer pupils.

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Meanwhile as an abundance/Yimby-curious speccy nerd, honestly interested to know if you have good examples of advocates trying to convince the public not just political elites?

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Really interesting piece by James Baggaley on the dangers of policy without people - and the real divide within Labour: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Steve Reed’s Yimbyism can’t win

To connect to voters, politics needs to be rooted in place and community

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Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

As a card-carrying speccy nerd, I think its probably on all of us to acknowledge that the public are very frustrated with politics as an 'inside game'. Seems to be more than just a stylistic concern but one of how you build trust in democracy.

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