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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I think this has to be the key thrust of the Parliamentary Standards Commission investigation into the £5m ‘gift’ from Harborne to Farage. If it was an inducement to run for Parliament, then it is no longer a gift and so subject to tax. But are ‘security expenses’ genuinely a gift?

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“If you want a sign of where a nation is heading, there are few clearer litmus tests than how those with power see disabled children. Are they a problem to be erased? Or valuable kids to be included?” My col. on Labour’s Send reforms, progress, and Reform. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone | Frances Ryan

It doesn’t fit neatly on a Treasury spreadsheet, but there is huge value in disabled and non-disabled pupils learning together, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britain… From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/02/2026

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight "Your position is utterly incoherent" "You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 03/10/2025

Wow. It can't come easy being so misogynistic. You would really have to work hard on that.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

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Tabasum Westra @tabasum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This is exactly how we ought to live together. With great care, friendliness, sensory and a great and open heart. So, so many people are living by these standards. We should give them the floor more often. Wonderful.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/08/2025

“What really worries me is seeing the impacts now at this relatively low level of warming where things are already getting really stressed, and thinking about what’s this going to be like in five years or 10 years, or even next year” bit.ly/4fMdz1y

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Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts

Hot summer also causing trees to shed their leaves as concerns raised over ‘food gap’ for wildlife in autumn

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Jan T Dunte @jantedunte.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My guess this is Elon's way of revenging Grok's answer to this question from Def Mon: "@grok Which are the top 10 bullshit spreading vatnik accounts on X?"

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 07/07/2025

Yorkshire’s reservoirs plunge as drought tightens grip With an average of 260 million litres lost to leaks last year and bills going up by 40%, is it time for Yorkshire Water to face new management? By Brian McHugh @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Yorkshire’s reservoirs plunge as drought tightens grip

With an average of 260 million litres lost to leaks last year and bills going up by 40%, is it time for Yorkshire Water to face new management?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Simon Nixon's piece in the current edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Rachel Reeves is very prescient given todays events

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Step 1. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals Step 3. Promise deals Step 4. Fail to make deals Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country ...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch

George Parker and David Sheppard in London and Andres Schipani in New Delhi
Published 13 MINUTES AGO
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been accused by Indian officials of talking
"rubbish" after she denounced the "two tier" tax arrangement at the heart of the UK/India trade deal negotiated by Sir
Keir Starmer.
New Delhi officials insist Badenoch agreed the principle of giving Indian employees in the UK relief from Britain's national insurance levy during her time as business and trade secretary in the last Tory government.
"It's amazing," said one senior Indian official. "It was on the table when she was trade secretary."

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Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Fairytales really can come true. Well done to the newest community landowner in the Scottish Borders! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Broughton dog walkers raise £900,000 to buy their local forest

A group in the Borders has completed the £875,000 purchase of the land between Peebles and Biggar.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/05/2025

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You can actually see the brain cells turning over

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Be cautious re: the report going around claiming the Trump administration "urged" an "unspecified allied state" to stop arming Ukraine. What The Economist wrote was that the administration "questioned" an ally on why it thought arming Ukraine was wise. Semantically and legally, there's a difference.

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Trump officials 'fed up' with Europe's efforts to strengthen Ukraine, Economist reports

The Trump administration officials are dissatisfied with European countries' ongoing support for Ukraine, underscoring the growing rift between Washington and Europe, the Economist reported on April 1...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Arthur Daley's Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, with analysis of what Trump's Tariffs do and don't tell us about Brexit itself, and how the 'choice' they give the UK is to duck and dive whilst the real decisions are made by others: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/arth...

Image of the beginning of the blog post.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So much free speech…

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11/04/2025

Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing.

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 08/04/2025

At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again! xkcd.com/3073/

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Tariffs

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

BOOM!! Bluesky now has more than 34 MILLION users! Share the good news!! 💙 🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

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Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/03/2025

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Surely Hegseth and Waltz are toast? In any normal administration he’d have resigned yesterday; in any normal administration he’d be fired today. But this isn’t a normal administration so let’s see.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yesterday, Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg. Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy. The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg.

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@BHL

Launch of #TheWillToSee Thanks Amb @Ph_Etienne. Thanks for being there: @alinazary @BayanRahman @JeffreyGoldberg@DavidTafuri @michaelgwaltz @sinam56 Tom Kaplan Emily Hamilton @JMfreespeech & others

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Photo of waltz standing next to Goldberg at event at the French embassy in 2021

Both are wearing suits, standing amongst a crowd of people as they watch a person with a microphone speak

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Here’s a song about #Signalgate – the flamboyant US security breach – adapted from one of our all-time fave Bee Gees songs, titled “You Were Not Supposed to Message it Through!” A quick turnaround, but only 5 of us as Alfie (really our best fake Bee Gee) is away 🔥👊💪🙏🎶 youtu.be/rPfwtXulKS4

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"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate

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Colin McFarlane @colinamcfarlane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This will blow your mind! I guess in one way we’re not surprised, but seeing it in black and white….(excuse the pun!)….but WOW!😮 #humanrights #justice

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Bombshell Atlantic piece where Goldberg accidentally got looped into a Signal group of Trump's top brass preparing the Houthi strikes. I’d urge everyone, including economic EU policymakers, to read it to grasp the raw, unvarnished grievance team Trump has with Europe.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:

Jeremy and colleagues,

Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine.
Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives.

This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.

When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out.

It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way.
To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied,
"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your

With gratitude and ur...
"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly.
I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity.
The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us.
This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing.
Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not

"Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly.
I did all of these things out of ho…

Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't.

To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure.

Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were.

Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others.

Rachel
Rachel Cohen

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Juergen Maier CBE @juergenmaier.co.uk · 21/03/2025

#GreatBritishEnergy's first major investment today - a roll out of roof top clean solar power on our schools and hospitals. Energy savings of £400m from these installations will be reinvested back into education and healthcare, so a tremendous community investment. www.gbe.gov.uk/blog/great-b...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1. Today the Tories unveil their new policy: ripping up the commitment to net zero by 2050. Kemi Badenoch, with no evidence, claims "it can’t be achieved without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us." What the evidence shows is the opposite. We can't prosper without it. 🧵

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/03/2025

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

News you can use! This is getting interesting.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism [Wynn-Williams, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

these are now 'tariffs' in the sense that your 2yo is 'making tea' in their play kitchen that you have to pretend to eat & i propose that next time he does it, everyone just goes 'tariffs, eh? oh yes super scary!' but carries on trading as if literally nothing had happened, everyone's happy

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

People of Wales - don't vote Reform, you will receive the same lack of interest from Farage & Tice - they aren't interested in local people, just building a presence to get more of their rotters into Westminster to ruin it.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Quite the first paragraph. No idea as to the merits of the claim, but A+ for effort.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancels Elon Musk’s Starlink contract and bans all US companies from government contracts: “It’s done, it’s gone... We won’t award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province and our country.” “They only have President Trump to blame.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 04/03/2025

This is the way

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