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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

stonewall was so powerful that the brick travelled back in time and caused the UK's Sexual Offenses Act of 1967.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wonder how soft this disappointment is though - remain is a different prospect to rejoin, after all

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The casual antisemitism among leftists is really something to behold. Something go wrong? THE J...excuse me...THE ZIONISTS MUST BE INVOLVED.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"He had the opportunity at the Brighton conference to demonstrate a different kind of authority, generated from within, expressing conviction derived from a stable core of belief, made compelling by courage. It is the stuff of which leadership is made. Polanski doesn’t have it."

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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still haven't seen a single person be able to defend or explain why you'd vote against this amendment or why it was unacceptable. It's the smoking gun as to exactly what the Zionism is Racism motion aims to achieve.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is remarkable how badly the Russians treat their troops.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 05/10/2026

don't worry zack you only need people who Way Too Online to vote for you, no-one else matters

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Polanski is fundamentally not up to the challenge of bridging the divide in the party because his entire model of politics is one where there’s an obvious good side and obvious bad side to every issue.

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

So much online politics is this dynamic, in which an anonymous person, purportedly a Green supporter, cannot recognise that the person they are berating a former Green councillor and parliamentary candidate who was literally a leadership candidate six years ago.

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Made over 50 replies yesterday
So of course you can point towards a long history of calling Labour etc "antisemitic" and "extreme" for supporting Zionism and it's not a position you've just pulled out your ass to defend these attacks now, right?

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I am not and have never been a Labour member or supporter. I am, for the time being at least, a Green member.

I hope that explains my greater involvement in one of these things than the other.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

It will be funny if the Greens and Reform fall back under the weight of their own incompetencies, combined with tactical herding when the election comes, and so three years of "oooh, fragmentation" becomes "And it turns out it was all a dream".

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

You're only ever a recession or an inflation spike away from your opposition gaining power, so you have to want them to respect the broad norms.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the sort of shit that happens when you don't have a peerage system.

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

But Sophie, have you considered that instead of relying on “well-organised conservative parties”, we instead rely on “interpersonally unpleasant progressives who have never won a single election” win every election in the future?

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For crying out loud, the solution to everything is not 'directly elected mayors', an office which is only a year older than I am (I'm 25) and which sits uneasily within the British constitution

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of my favorite Chinese religious beliefs is that there's a prominent deity called the Horse King, who is the protector of equines, especially for draft labor. Sometimes around the late Ming, a conviction arises that the Horse King is *Muslim* - and therefore you sacrifice lamb, not pork, to him.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Falklands have long been core to Argentine identity, appearing on posters and graffiti across the country." - deeply odd country

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Milei dials up Argentina’s claim to Falklands

Domestic politics, oil drilling and UK-US tensions drive libertarian leader to amp up sovereignty dispute

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Jack @nothingbutflowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For a moment I thought this was Ed Davey

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In hindsight what's so remarkable about Thatcher was that she had a remarkable ability to hold the Tory coalition together, retaining the confidence of the right while anchoring them to a viable governing project that moderates were willing to participate in.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"This is like explaining cheese to the Taliban." - Me, in the coming months, to increasingly baffled colleagues.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Terrible, anyway he’s not allowed to drive again for four years. So you can tell the court took it very seriously.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the mechanism behind this is that if you don't do your homework you don't learn the topic

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If I had written to a journalist telling them not to publish a legitimate piece of reporting, prior to Arday’s resignation, explicitly on the grounds that they should not want to “line up alongside” the bad guys, I’d be quite quiet about having done so.

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Stats4Cranks was always suspect but she's gone totally off the rails in the last few years

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Delighted to find out that the Milk Marketing Board had their own coat of arms. The cow in the Palisado Crown at the top is a particularly nice touch. Disappointingly generic logo, though - should have gone with something like "Praesentem mulge, fugientem quid insequeris".

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Omg the Polanski result...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Think my High Toryism overlaps with this.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We genuinely never had this problem prior to the mass adoption of smartphones, and it's particularly a TikTok thing, I find. Yes you would get the occasional wanker playing something out of tinny MP3 player speakers, but they were reasonably rare and got tutted at by everyone.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

👇Great post this. Learning the recorder is a classic example of the importance of knowledge-rich learning that may seem pointless: it’s an easy, cheap way to provide children with the building blocks that allow them to learn to play many instruments quicker later.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Northern PM for two days and already imposing flat caps.

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

Reminded me that this exists:

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is a useful thread I think which gets to why the whole 'I don't care about character, just policy positions!' is one of those things which *sounds* intellectual and high-minded but ends up being utterly vacuous

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I will note that their time in the cave begins after both the Armenian and Herero genocides, so if they did not take part in the crimes of Adolf Hitler, they are nailed on to have worked for his inspiration and honestly is that any better

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/06/2026

Think this will remain one of the all time "The haters said we couldn't do it, and turns out they were right. Great call from the haters" stories of all time.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/06/2026

My main gut feeling is that the main discrimination in our organs of the state is whether you initial read as functional/dysfunctional, itself an approach loaded with different prejudices, but not really the result of any single one.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

One of my many hobby horses is that the problem with WhatsApp in the workplace is that it replaces both written and informal chatting in ways that are often deeply inferior to both.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's bleakly funny in its own way that Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney took such an avoidable and predictable risk in order to appoint someone who (correctly) had the measure of their limitations and did not agree with their project:

Peter Mandelson: It's messy because the government doesn't do policy, generally speaking, well enough. It all starts with policy.

Peter Mandelson: Fight Reform by being Successful Labour not Blue Labour

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/06/2026

Cenk Uygur is not a "mainstream commentator". He's a 9/11 truther, for a start. With a long list of other views. I think this travel ban is borderline, to say the least. But a discussion of it shouldn't whitewash Uygur's views. He comes out with some absolutely batshit stuff, and often.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There’s a lot of competition but I think Tommy Tuberville is probably the most on the nose GOP Senator for the new era. Thick as pigshit, absolutely nothing going on upstairs, ex-handegg player, is called “Tommy Tuberville”. No. Impossible to parody. This would have been rejected by Veep.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There's a trope of the MP as glorified social worker and hyperlocalisation in British politics - does this carry over to other countries with single member constituencies? France, Germany, Canada, Australia, US? If not, why not? What about multi-member or mixed member systems?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/05/2026

The government seems to believe it's main problem is Comms, not policy, but we could now be six weeks into a big "This is what is happening, this is what it means" campaign about oil prices... And we just aren't?

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William Wright @williamw1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“He’s very conflict-averse. Andy wants to be loved and avoids making difficult decisions.” I don’t want to be a downer but isn’t this what Jess Philips, Wes Streeting and everyone else have been complaining about with Keir Starmer?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's remarkable the posts that basically go 'I think that the Cabinet, and Labour MPs, are stupid and have been gulled into a leadership change by the media, there's no a single adequate replacement in the government...nonetheless the prime minister who oversees this is good'.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

To be clear, the Labour left only have themselves to blame here with their sycophancy over Andy Burnham

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Personally think the most important thing about Catherine West freelancing is that she is essentially saying 'well, I don't like the look of either of the known candidates and Andy is a pipe dream', a position held by a lot of Labour MPs but whose solution is Micawberist 'something will turn up'.

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Will Goddard @willpaddyg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Really want to know which seat this was

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