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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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New post just out:
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
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Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list"
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New post just out:
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
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If you read anything this weekend, make it this by @barneyronay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
If you read anything this weekend, make it this by @barneyronay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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HFE, on PPI:
“.. Well… this is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy.
“.. will not be a long journey for producers' prices to translate into consumer prices.”
“.. Well… this is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy.
“.. will not be a long journey for producers' prices to translate into consumer prices.”
August 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
HFE, on PPI:
“.. Well… this is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy.
“.. will not be a long journey for producers' prices to translate into consumer prices.”
“.. Well… this is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy.
“.. will not be a long journey for producers' prices to translate into consumer prices.”
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Daryl Cooper—the current #1 History Substacker—in 2016: “Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process, and you have to initiate people without scaring them off."
How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack
Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.
www.motherjones.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Daryl Cooper—the current #1 History Substacker—in 2016: “Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process, and you have to initiate people without scaring them off."
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average online discussion tbh
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
average online discussion tbh
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A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services"
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
July 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services"
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
July 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Happening now on r/AskHistorians: AMA! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
www.reddit.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happening now on r/AskHistorians: AMA! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).
“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).
“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
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We did it. We finally found the limits on executive power. 🤡
Q: "What is stopping the administration from just...putting out what is appropriate [on Epstein]?"
Leavitt: "Those are questions for the DOJ...That's out of the president's control."
Leavitt: "Those are questions for the DOJ...That's out of the president's control."
July 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We did it. We finally found the limits on executive power. 🤡
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This may be the worst writing to appear in a national publication since the 1890s
July 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This may be the worst writing to appear in a national publication since the 1890s
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JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
July 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
I don't normally go for celebrity travelogues, but Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges was an extraordinary bit of television. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges
Amol heads to India on a pilgrimage to the largest religious festival in history, the Kumbh Mela, where he wants to find out if faith can help heal the pain of losing his father.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I don't normally go for celebrity travelogues, but Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges was an extraordinary bit of television. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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‘What strikes you at once about Vuong’s prose is its bludgeoning inexactness – not a fruitful, poetic ambivalence, but sheer clumsiness.’
Tom Crewe on Ocean Vuong’s new novel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Crewe on Ocean Vuong’s new novel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure
In On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong considered himself to be reworking the traditional novel in a poetic vein....
www.lrb.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
‘What strikes you at once about Vuong’s prose is its bludgeoning inexactness – not a fruitful, poetic ambivalence, but sheer clumsiness.’
Tom Crewe on Ocean Vuong’s new novel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Crewe on Ocean Vuong’s new novel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the US
Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the US
Nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan ‘fully’ restricted as those of seven other countries partially restricted
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US politics – follow live
Donald Trump has signed a proclamation banning travel from 12 countries and restricting travel from seven others, reviving and expanding the travel bans from his first term.
The nationals of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be “fully” restricted from entering the US, according to the proclamation. Meanwhile, the entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the US
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Would it be possible to have separate #booksky feeds for "Books I'm Writing/Have Written" and "Books I'm Reading"? I want to support authors, being one, but sometimes I would like to hear what people are reading.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Would it be possible to have separate #booksky feeds for "Books I'm Writing/Have Written" and "Books I'm Reading"? I want to support authors, being one, but sometimes I would like to hear what people are reading.
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Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh
February 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh
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Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)
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Nicely done Guardian
February 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nicely done Guardian
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Are the optics of Musk holding court in the Oval Office while Trump sits quietly in the corner of the frame supposed to persuade us that Trump is in charge
Asked to respond to people who say he's orchestrating a hostile takeover of government, Elon Musk lies that "a majority of the public voted for President Trump"
February 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Are the optics of Musk holding court in the Oval Office while Trump sits quietly in the corner of the frame supposed to persuade us that Trump is in charge
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Here's a stunner. It's outrage after outrage, and the only real check is public opinion. The idea that this guy is making government his private sandbox and profiting from it in ways we don't know is abominable.
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public
The billionaire, who is serving President Trump as an unpaid “special government employee,” will file a confidential report on his financial interests, according to a White House official.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Here's a stunner. It's outrage after outrage, and the only real check is public opinion. The idea that this guy is making government his private sandbox and profiting from it in ways we don't know is abominable.
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
My main regret about the X-odus is I have lost so many of the book reading recommendations I had bookmarked 😭
February 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My main regret about the X-odus is I have lost so many of the book reading recommendations I had bookmarked 😭
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Again, the only big outlet covering this like it would if these guys were Democrats.
February 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Again, the only big outlet covering this like it would if these guys were Democrats.