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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nolan: I want the audience to understand that the Trojan Horse was the ultimate betrayal and one that continues to reverberate through the ages. We should not sickly celebrate it as heroics. AMC: Got it. We have just the thing for that.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Watching House of the Dragon and all I can think is - If only Rhaenyra Targaryen knew how to issue a state currency backed by the threat of dragon fire, she could solve her problem paying the Gold Cloaks overnight.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The real political scandal of the day.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

really cool going from the 2010 World Cup, where Ghana’s little run seemed like a magical anomaly, to a bunch of African teams contending across the bracket and participating in the global pastime of causing fear and misery in England.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Brazil always has a presidential election a few months after the #WorldCup. Please, no country defeat them in a humiliating fashion. The last time that happened, they elected Bolsonaro. If it happens again, they might do something stupid like electing Bolsonaro's idiot son.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Imo, a perfect excuse to enact emergency WW2-style Keynesian industrial mobilisation.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Disclosure Day feels like a film that was originally twice as long, they cut half of it, but accidentally showed us the half that was cut.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

1) Taxing billionaires more would absolutely help teachers. 2) Even if it didn't, taking obscene power out of the hands of billionaires is in itself a good, and the main reason to tax them. We don't need a single $1 of billionaires money - we just need them not to have it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An organisation's culture is set by its leader, Starmer dislikes making political arguments and has essentially convinced himself doing so is silly symbolism, so "persuasion" has dropped out of the government's mental toolkit entirely.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Besides these excellent reasons not to cut tax and diesel taxes, there’s a more straightforward one: it’s perverse to respond to a shortage of something by increasing the incentive to buy that thing. If we want to compensate people of limited means who have to drive, give them cash payments.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In order to help guarantee this ceasefire, Britain should probably now request all US bombers leave UK bases as soon as possible.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Artemis II - A beautiful new image released The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a the solar eclipse. Captured by one of the cameras on Orion’s solar array wings. A bright spot visible below the Moon’s right edge is Saturn. Then a bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. 🚀🌓🌒

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On the day humanity witnesses a new Earthrise, the planet's most powerful leader thrratens annihilation for one of the oldest civilizations ever to exist upon it.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/04/2026

Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Trump's war on cars is having sickening global consequences. When will it end?

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The virgin US carrier strike group vs the chad RFA Lyme Bay.

"US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now"

"(Royal) Navy fits RFA Lyme Bay with mine-hunting drones to end Iran blockade"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/03/2026

Pay attention to Lebanon. Trump and Netanyahu started a regional war in the Middle East, creating a humanitarian disaster. And now, the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon—about 20% of them are kids. Congress should not bankroll this escalating war of choice.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

if Trump doesnt TACO, this crisis will be a March 2020 kind of crisis - over that year, the Bank of England purchased 90% of all gilts issued by the Conservative government. why are we not talking about that reaction function, instead of absolutely mad interest rate increases?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Oh no, a supply shock! Let's make it more expensive to invest in measures which could mitigate that supply shock" is what the world's central banks are likely to do by raising rates.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I didn't know Ed Miliband had been cast as the villain for the next Superman movie.

Headline: Milliband targets 'limitless' clean energy with Nottinghamshire fusion plant.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Seems pretty clear Israel's objective is to prevent any possible diplomatic off-ramp for the USA by assassinating anyone who could conceivably make any agreement on a national level for Iran.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Some of the world's largest businesses urging governments to back the electrification of economies as quickly as is feasibly possible. This is so self-evidently true that it remains utterly mad that it is somehow still up for debate. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526980...

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Top businesses urge Europe to accelerate electrification to curb reliance on 'volatile fossil fuels'

Corporate Leaders Group and We Mean Business coalition of leading blue chips urge governments to respond to energy market crisis with renewed push to accelerate electrification

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Fully expecting Keir to just go along with this without even trying to get anything from Trump in return. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

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President Trump has threatened to

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

All Iran had to do was paint one of these things gold and gift it to Trump as the inaugural "Middle East Peace Prize" and they'd have had all sanctions lifted by now.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I wonder why he'd say this now, of all times 🤔.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matter - IRGC!

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Jesus christ. All UK Labour had to do was say "That Trump fella.. not a great guy." about once a month and do normal centre-left things and they could have this.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I mean, should the UK have a few more operational frigates/destroyers at any given time available - sure. But also, the whole thing is part of an integrated NATO force. The idea that THE FRENCH!! might escort a UK carrier with some of their frigates is a very normal thing that's supposed to happen.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Starmer approval +5pts if he calls a press conference specifically to tell Tony Blair to go throw a shoe at himself.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Trump stops supplying Ukraine with advanced air defence munitions so that he can start Gulf War III instead. Meanwhile Putin abandons Iran to launch large missile strike across Ukraine. Shows how dangerous it is being a loyal junior 'ally' to these powers.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A fascinating bit of convergent evolution that the McSweeney-Starmer project has basically ended up leaving Labour in the same position as its Western European peers…as a result of deliberate, wholly avoidable choices.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The luge is the breaststroke of sledding. Do we really need to find out who is the quickest in the world at the slowest way of sledding? #WinterOlympics

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

There's no guarantee that making a marine an MP will go any better than making a random MP become a marine.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This sport here where it's a guy scrubbing the floor really hard whilst his wife yells at him from 20ft away to scrub harder. Great sport. #WinterOlympics

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What if the British government adopted this novel new Canadian strategy of trying to be popular, instead of the opposite of that.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

David Cameron: "Well, well, well, not so easy to find a Prime Minister that doesn't suck shit, huh?"

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Even the bond vigilantes don’t like the fiscal rules.

Top UK government bond investors have urged Rachel Reeves to relax Treasury constraints on borrowing by development corporations in a bid to streamline big projects such as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and boost growth.
In a letter last month, companies including Legal & General and Aviva warned the chancellor that her self-imposed fiscal rules are making it harder to buy land and convert it into new towns and big housing schemes.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Saying you would take a "much tougher stance on immigration" than the Labour government is (or should be) discrediting for the same reason that saying your budget plans would be "very fiscal" would be. What does it mean?

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A law mandating that all new vehicles must look very derpy, would reduce traffic deaths by at least 40%.

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Tom Randall @tomrandall.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Matrix, but instead of growing humans in pods for energy, it's to feed the AI with human-creative input to prevent the machines from turning themselves into AI-slop.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/01/2026

US & UK seem to be competing in some sort of perverse self-immolation olympics.

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