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What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.

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Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone. Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐

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What do you need to know about the triple lock? | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Not that this will penetrate, but there are serious economic reasons why the triple lock created a ratchet effect that was perverse and economically unsustainable. Sometimes people disagree with you for honest reasons. Not just because you are good and they are wicked. ifs.org.uk/articles/wha...

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The triple lock has boosted the level of the state pension over time and it creates high and uncertain costs for the future.

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"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂

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Great start to the week for CPS... bsky.app/profile/paul...

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Here is a sample of Denby's economic expertise: "Bond markets... don't believe in Britain, they think we are too much of a risk, because of our out-of-control spending and our out-of-control taxes and all of those things." I hope the Nobel Economics Prize Committee is paying attention.

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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alys Denby, spouting utter guff with huge confidence on Politics Live, like "bringing the review forward by a year is just kicking the can further down the road" and "if you bump into the Laffer curve you get no tax revenue at all", has no economic training I can find, except from Tufton Street.

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As a pensioner, I have no problem with the triple lock being removed. Fixing social care is far more important and would benefit pensioners more. When Conservatives scream betrayal, remind them that they suspended it in 2022 when it suited them.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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This has to be one of the most filthy-imagery-rich episodes I have heard in a while.

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Amanda @amandadudman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😅a fun listen about some shockingly terrible things dissected suitably well. Lol moments. Helpful analysis. 👏

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Worth the listen for the “as welcome as…” simile alone.

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Featuring banana plants in potholes and campaigning superhero Privetman. May also contain sharp political analysis and biting satire, terms & conditions apply, you have been warned etc

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Xi is like, "Who the fuck are these weirdos?"

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AB: "I don't think you get the welfare bill down with crude cuts. It plunges people into crisis and they show up in other parts of the system which end up costing more." LK: "Yeah, you've said this before, but I'm looking for a specific commitment you will cut the bill by the next election." WOW

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Kuenssberg couldn't sleep last night, imagining how she would spring "Santa Burnham" on the PM. She is crestfallen that he actually has a cogent answer, that is not a version of "it's true, poor people are wicked and must be punished".

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Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In which Kenny and I get hysterical. Again.

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Sunday School: Never Mind The Ballots 🗳️ No election til 2029. Courage or folly? 🇺🇸 Trump’s midterm Red Wedding 🌴 Potholes to plant-pots: in praise of petty defiance With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/s/03hCgc1 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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Sunday School: Never Mind The Ballots

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 27 September · 1hr 2min

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just caught up with Friday's gratuitously Labour-Bashing Newsnight. Matt Chorley trying to be Paxman is like those awful circus acts with poodles dressed in tutus, dancing for treats. So thoroughly tragic, that one ends up angry at the man with the clicker who put the poor thing in that position.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our brand new Cooler Heads offering is out now. A fab podcast called How to Solve A Problem Like Everything. Have a listen! 🎧 👇

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are so proud to be welcoming a fourth baby podcast into the family! It continues our outrageous trend of getting people who know what they're talking about to talk about things of substance. Give this episode a listen and its creators the encouragement they deserve. #HDYSAPLE

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Let us not treat "he who wields the knife never wears the crown" as some inviolable rule. Especially, seeing it was coined by someone who failed at both knife-wielding and crown-wearing. Looking at most recent examples, he who wields the knife almost invariably wears the crown.

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True, but I think many undestimate just how traumatic Trump is for the GOP right now. The idea they'll just jump into another BDSM affair with some inferior clone is oversold. What remains of the GOP isn't powerless - just not powerful enough to take on Trump. Some people's surrender is strategic.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Surprised there's no mention of Karoline Leavitt re the White House meltdown of last few weeks. A lot of VERY worried insider briefing when she resigned was that KL was one of very few people who could steer DJT away from stuff. Seems worth at least mulling that she was parly holding him together.

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🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges

The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026

Trump winces in pain during the loud military flyover as Xi shows no reaction

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There must be SOME ambitious people in the GOP right now thinking: the next round of elections is gone, the only way for Republicans to survive is to publically defenestrate Trump, figuratively speaking, and the person brave enough to do that, will have one hand on the crown for 2032.

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What a laughable take. Simply incredible to look at this two-day Trump car crash - including no coverage of state dinner because of press ban and huge "stop the communist Dems" ad campaign launching while Trump rolls our the Red Carpet for The Reds - and have your top takeaway be: Xi Failed A Bit.

BBC screen grab: "Xi got Trump's red carpet welcome - but not everything he wanted". Yeah, sure. Trump failed to entirely accurately hum "Mo Li Hua" while guzzling Xi's ballsack.

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Ben Bradford @benbrad4d.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The conundrum they're trying to solve: Without Trump you won't get past the primaries. With Trump you might not get past voters. Their solution is trying to shift attention away from Trump - the world's most accomplished limelight hog and history's attention-thirstiest slut. Good luck with that. 😬

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The story of woke cheese is worth the price of admission alone ⬇️⬇️⬇️🧀🧀🧀

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Trump Plans to Visit Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama

How are the Midterms going for Trump? Well, his itinerary next week has him visiting Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama. 😹 Either the polling GOP is seeing is a lot worse than public polls or - more likely - they don't want Trump anywhere even near an actual contest. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

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The president announced plans to rally in deep-red states as his party makes a push for close races in battleground states.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing can prepare you for this week's Wokey Dokey. What do you reckon a MAGA influencer might be talking about, when she shouts: "THIS IS HOW THE TAKEOVER STARTS!" No cheating!

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It's certainly quite the position for someone who has ended up leader because their predecessor was arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive/controlling behaviour. I think the BSL interpreter has captured the tone very well.

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