Miranda Green
@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
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NEW POD! FT's 📻 @pickardje.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com and Sam Fleming pick over the taxes Reeves might raise and how; the political damage thereof; crucially from Katie, what the markets *really* think of the UK, Reeves and Farage; PLUS how to pronounce smorgasbord www.ft.com/content/359e...
To tax, but who to tax, that is the question
What are Rachel Reeves’ options?
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November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEW POD! FT's 📻 @pickardje.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com and Sam Fleming pick over the taxes Reeves might raise and how; the political damage thereof; crucially from Katie, what the markets *really* think of the UK, Reeves and Farage; PLUS how to pronounce smorgasbord www.ft.com/content/359e...
NEW POD! FT's 📻 @pickardje.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com and Sam Fleming pick over the taxes Reeves might raise and how; the political damage thereof; crucially from Katie, what the markets *really* think of the UK, Reeves and Farage; PLUS how to pronounce smorgasbord www.ft.com/content/359e...
To tax, but who to tax, that is the question
What are Rachel Reeves’ options?
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEW POD! FT's 📻 @pickardje.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com and Sam Fleming pick over the taxes Reeves might raise and how; the political damage thereof; crucially from Katie, what the markets *really* think of the UK, Reeves and Farage; PLUS how to pronounce smorgasbord www.ft.com/content/359e...
OK so I posted a piece by Helen Lewis that is excellent. A bunch of people told me she can't be admired as a journalist because she is an evil person. I defended her right to write, mine to read and recommend, now I'm told she's an actual Nazi and wants people to kill themselves and I'm an enabler.
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
OK so I posted a piece by Helen Lewis that is excellent. A bunch of people told me she can't be admired as a journalist because she is an evil person. I defended her right to write, mine to read and recommend, now I'm told she's an actual Nazi and wants people to kill themselves and I'm an enabler.
I see we still have a lot of people on here, as on Twitter, who can't cope with people who have different opinions on complex issues but don't choose to reveal who they are while targetting women by name - do we all have to pass our catechism to be allowed a voice on Blue Sky?
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I see we still have a lot of people on here, as on Twitter, who can't cope with people who have different opinions on complex issues but don't choose to reveal who they are while targetting women by name - do we all have to pass our catechism to be allowed a voice on Blue Sky?
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In a world of slop and angry voices, we need organisations like @financialtimes.com who bring calm, evidence based journalism. And more than finance, as this important series shows. Thankyou!
Do check out their podcasts too. My favourite is Political Fix with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social
Do check out their podcasts too. My favourite is Political Fix with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social
You might be living with lead poisoning and not know it: the toxin is often invisible to the eye, but wreaks havoc on our bodies once we're exposed.
@laurahughesft.bsky.social uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic in Toxic Legacy, a new season of our Untold podcast: on.ft.com/3WU8YS8
@laurahughesft.bsky.social uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic in Toxic Legacy, a new season of our Untold podcast: on.ft.com/3WU8YS8
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a world of slop and angry voices, we need organisations like @financialtimes.com who bring calm, evidence based journalism. And more than finance, as this important series shows. Thankyou!
Do check out their podcasts too. My favourite is Political Fix with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social
Do check out their podcasts too. My favourite is Political Fix with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social
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This is really interesting by Matthew Barnfield and colleagues. Our research shows Labour is losing more support among its 2024 voters who feel financially insecure, which - together - suggests voters leaving Labour cant *afford* to wait for ‘jam tomorrow’.
Voters who think the least about the 'long term' are the most likely to have turned on the government.
Important research by my fantastic colleagues @mbarnfield.bsky.social , @philipjcowley.bsky.social and @karlpike.bsky.social cited in Inside Politics.
www.ft.com/content/e984...
Important research by my fantastic colleagues @mbarnfield.bsky.social , @philipjcowley.bsky.social and @karlpike.bsky.social cited in Inside Politics.
www.ft.com/content/e984...
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons
Research shows party losing voters who want results now, with women more likely to prioritise short-term gains
www.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is really interesting by Matthew Barnfield and colleagues. Our research shows Labour is losing more support among its 2024 voters who feel financially insecure, which - together - suggests voters leaving Labour cant *afford* to wait for ‘jam tomorrow’.
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Great to speak to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for today's FT Inside Politics about the latest finding from our politics of (im)patience project, w/ @karlpike.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/e984...
www.ft.com/content/e984...
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons
Research shows party losing voters who want results now, with women more likely to prioritise short-term gains
www.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Great to speak to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for today's FT Inside Politics about the latest finding from our politics of (im)patience project, w/ @karlpike.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/e984...
www.ft.com/content/e984...
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Latest from our politics of impatience project - some excellent analysis by @mbarnfield.bsky.social showing Labour is losing the jam today voters.
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Latest from our politics of impatience project - some excellent analysis by @mbarnfield.bsky.social showing Labour is losing the jam today voters.
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
Labour sheds support from impatient Britons: on.ft.com/48EaX4h
This is every bit as incredibly good as everyone says, by Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is every bit as incredibly good as everyone says, by Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
For those enjoying the Chris Giles vs Kemi spat on welfare, @georgewparker.bsky.social brought it up on the podcast this week so that we cld take sides - how grown up - www.ft.com/content/7e1c...
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
For those enjoying the Chris Giles vs Kemi spat on welfare, @georgewparker.bsky.social brought it up on the podcast this week so that we cld take sides - how grown up - www.ft.com/content/7e1c...
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We’re doing a pub quiz, in New York City, on 11 November. Get your tickets NOW!
Back in quizness
on.ft.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
oh come ON people
"Why MEL he doth beSTRIDE the narrow world like a colossus/And we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about"
*dons toga*
*dons toga*
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
oh come ON people
This piece by Daniel Susskind on what the real levers of growth might be for the UK has been steadily doing well all week - what we can learn from the economics Nobel winners www.ft.com/content/1d39...
What Nobel economics prize winners teach us about growth
A cauldron of new ideas and technologies is more important than ‘build, build, build’
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October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This piece by Daniel Susskind on what the real levers of growth might be for the UK has been steadily doing well all week - what we can learn from the economics Nobel winners www.ft.com/content/1d39...
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How Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Outstanding investigative reporting from a crack FT team.
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
How Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Outstanding investigative reporting from a crack FT team.
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
Taking the tone of disliking the voters - never a great idea - thought this by UCL policy lab @jimbaggaley.bsky.social was thought-provoking on the limits of Yimbyism www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Steve Reed’s Yimbyism can’t win
To connect to voters, politics needs to be rooted in place and community
www.newstatesman.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Taking the tone of disliking the voters - never a great idea - thought this by UCL policy lab @jimbaggaley.bsky.social was thought-provoking on the limits of Yimbyism www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is great ICYMI
In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib
Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?
[FREE TO READ] Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left
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October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is great ICYMI
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Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?-It wasn’t quite what we were expecting. Gathered at the graveside after a cathartic funeral service, all eyes were on…
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Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?
Lists of hits and misses often feature when talking shop, but for public speaking such rankings raise the stakes
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October 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?-It wasn’t quite what we were expecting. Gathered at the graveside after a cathartic funeral service, all eyes were on…
www.ft.com/content/24a0... @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/24a0... @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
spent a lot of my 13th and 14th years dressed like this
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
spent a lot of my 13th and 14th years dressed like this
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Lovely piece from @greenmirandahere.bsky.social I'd never come across "hatch, match and dispatch" before. The two most stressful speeches of my life were delivering my father's eulogy and being the "father of the bride". Would your speech make a professional’s top 10? - on.ft.com/3KHZsyZ via @FT
Would your speech make a professional’s top 10?
Lists of hits and misses often feature when talking shop, but for public speaking such rankings raise the stakes
on.ft.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Lovely piece from @greenmirandahere.bsky.social I'd never come across "hatch, match and dispatch" before. The two most stressful speeches of my life were delivering my father's eulogy and being the "father of the bride". Would your speech make a professional’s top 10? - on.ft.com/3KHZsyZ via @FT
if you're all going to start talking about the Traitors I'm going to go off in a huff
October 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
if you're all going to start talking about the Traitors I'm going to go off in a huff
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Future scholars will struggle to understand the political importance and ideological subtleties of frogs in early 21st century American politics
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Future scholars will struggle to understand the political importance and ideological subtleties of frogs in early 21st century American politics
v good this (obvs)
Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.
www.ft.com/content/49ec...
www.ft.com/content/49ec...
The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain
Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
v good this (obvs)
A great bit of myth busting on graduate vs non-graduate unemployment from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ea9e...
What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong
People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts
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October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A great bit of myth busting on graduate vs non-graduate unemployment from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ea9e...
Enjoying the camera cutting to Jenrick
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Enjoying the camera cutting to Jenrick