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This is up there with the horrified reports you sometimes see from HR departments that in a Monday to Friday working week up to 40% of sick days are taken on a Monday or Friday

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

It's not the only problem with this predictably terrible piece, but it is remarkable to me the sheer number of pieces about the decline of men reading fiction that engages with the invention of this little known device called 'the affordable home gaming console':

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RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sulla killed shitloads of his enemies, practically drowned the Roman Republic in blood to wipe out the Marians and their allies. But within ten years of his death his constitutional order had collapsed, because you actually can't just proscribe your way out of politics.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 21h

Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Can't believe I've only just remembered this but Celebrity Traitor Hannah Fry once (implicitly) backed liberating the Postcode Address File:

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Grave Robber-tson 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 08/10/2026

what does "netflix-style vision for iplayer" even mean? they already do the same thing as netflix's core product. it is a netflix-style service.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You should say "please" and "thank you" to AIs for the same reason you should use your turn signal when no one is around: so that you'll also do it when you're stressed and in a hurry and forgetful and won't accidentally be an asshole.

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Phil Rodgers @philrodgers.co.uk · 08/10/2026

The projection from UK Polling Report for the Cambridge parliamentary seat has the Lib Dems overtaking the Greens and moving up to second place after a year in third. Daniel Zeichner retains a comfortable lead for Labour. pollingreport.uk/seats/E14001...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a really weird elite radicalisation that you just... don't see reflected in wider society? And yet it is entirely ventriloquised as the voice of the common man.

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

None of this makes any sense unless they're planning an early election. An early election would be an insane thing to do given the war in Iran etc. But apart from LGR and Devo, what are they going to do for 3 years? It doesn't make any sense!

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch claims the Conservative Party has changed, but people in Spelthorne aren't so convinced. I came to hear their concerns, and it's clear: empty promises won’t make them forget years of Conservative chaos, neglect and failure.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today’s note: tactically, strategically and morally, Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Reform is the right line to draw. Now she has to enforce it:

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Kemi Badenoch’s speech drew a moral dividing line between Tories and Reform

Opposition leader’s remarks will help distance her party from unpopular views on Englishness and court professional voters

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Agree with this, and I think if you don't you probably haven't seen how much "nothing is really racist", "racism is fine" and, "racism is good, actually" have risen on the online right and then through the wider ecosystem.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.

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Chauman @chaudman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also IMO her examples aren't really wrong. Yes some people questioned whether those players were English but there was a pretty strong consensus at time that the people who did so were racists. The point isn't there wasn't racism (there def was). It's more society didn't say "and that's acceptable"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As I was saying yesterday there is an obvious switch in approach and it's a welcome one. Let's see if it sticks with Katie Lam, Nick Timothy etc... on the front bench.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep, when I catch up with other former Lib Dem Spads we just sit around cackling about how we destroyed the Tories by making them compromise on key issues. ‘Wow we totally screwed their electoral chances for a decade’ we say as we laugh into our drinks.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welcome to the serious fiscal responsibility party, where we believe that what the United Kingdom needs is its own version of the Iron Dome.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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

One reason why I am a nut for devolution is this: central government ministers shouldn't spend their working hours thinking about the correct design of bus stops.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Crusader Kings III ass headline

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I really don't think that what people want is more expensive takeaway and more listless men hanging around with nothing to do while their asylum claims are processed:

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Are Deliveroo riders really self-employed? Labour wants to change the test

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds proposes that rules place less emphasis on whether workers can appoint a substitute

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

babylon 5 is incredible

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We can all argue about Burnham's speech but it meant girl twin asking me what the triple lock was and boy twin asking me what my preferred form of PR is. So it's done its work.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the most important story in the world keeps getting a bit important-er

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't be daft, they lost all their seats in 2025 and Omtzigt retired from public life.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

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Gravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Bluesky, of course!

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's much that can be criticised about Suella's mad position, but nobody who thinks this actually 'supports the England football team'.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ARE WE GOING FUCKING INSANE

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Recently overheard a parent proudly telling a friend that they’d told their 20/21 year old student son that as long as they were paying for his phone he had to share his location with them. Although now they were worried he never left his room (yeah, I’m not sure that’s what’s going on there).

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

her video on the church play cinematic universe is 10/10 youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?...

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The Church Play Cinematic Universe

YouTube video by Jenny Nicholson

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