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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Danes lost more soldiers per capita.

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders Why the awe inspiring cooling towers of our pensioned-off power station should be preserved as monuments, by Jonathan Glancey for The Critic ➡️ thecritic.co.uk/author/jonat...

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

MPs legislate. That's all they do. Now they complain about that.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink. per this morning's education committee.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

So some conviction politicians would be useful.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Perhaps she could have usefully saved to get him a chin.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

How many people would be involved? It's all performative nonsense.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

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Getting Britain out of the hole

A plan for the UK economy

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Nor will they talk about the wrecking ball that is Brexit. It's destabilised everything.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Brexit and being Reform-lite are your biggest problems. How about having an honest discussion with the electorate about the consequences of leaving the EU and not perpetuating myths about immigration?

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Well said. I'll not vote for people that back this.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I assumed you were referring to playing snooker.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Just as UK Higher Ed has gone past its red lines and the business will be in advising unis how to hold on and benefit from failures, all the work in politics looks like coming from Labour MPs who want to survive 2029 and return to office after Reform implode. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK borrowing costs up after markets spooked by Reeves’s income tax U-turn

Pound down 0.5% against dollar in early trading after chancellor drops plans for upcoming budget

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Basil @basdriver.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Moments before the attack. *scratch scratch* *purr purr* *scratch* *purr some more and louder* *scratch the belly some more* *purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!* **ATTACK THE HAND!** #Tibbles #BlackCatsRule #CatsOfBlueSky

My all black cat Tibbles who landed on his back all by himself while I was petting him and he was enjoying every second of it. But then started to wonder how he ended up there. And ultimately, just after the picture was taken, intervened with an attack on the hand.

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sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”. You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.

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No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder

I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Isn't it because we ran out of royals and had to import some?

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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Not much mention in the media coverage that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a bit of a reputation.

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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m so hungry I could eat the harvest moon I’m so hungry I could swallow it whole I can’t remember the last time someone threw me a chip if it carries on like this I’ll have to move to Brid… @holdernessnews.bsky.social

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Why are our politicians so out of touch with everything?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Their death rattle seems to essentially become a 'respectable' or well-organised Reform so?

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Perhaps have a think about UK geology, then get back to us.

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:

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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

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British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2) politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

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Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

He had two UAE teammates as breakaway helpers. Doesn't quite sit right IMO.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Nothing Syed has to say is "refreshing".

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2025

38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖 "Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7. Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world." TNG is 40 soon 🤯

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

It'll get him even more airtime on the BBC.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The leftward turn is what I make on my radio's on/off switch when he comes on.

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