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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Wrote this for @financialtimes.com re pasta at Parliament Hill cafe that is no more - and what the handover to a chain says for local accountability. Lido eatery is still holding out against eviction but who knows (with EM Forster and a bit of Jane Jacobs because why not?) as.ft.com/r/68e51f80-3...
Hampstead’s retro cafés fight back against a revamp
[FREE TO READ] London life is a muddle, but not all locals want to see things tidied up
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February 19, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Wrote this for @financialtimes.com re pasta at Parliament Hill cafe that is no more - and what the handover to a chain says for local accountability. Lido eatery is still holding out against eviction but who knows (with EM Forster and a bit of Jane Jacobs because why not?) as.ft.com/r/68e51f80-3...
Brilliant Martin Wolf 'mini series' on baby drought - one on gender roles www.ft.com/content/e1a7... and today's follow up argues the scares need much greater scrutiny www.ft.com/content/0ae2...
Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles
A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave
www.ft.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Brilliant Martin Wolf 'mini series' on baby drought - one on gender roles www.ft.com/content/e1a7... and today's follow up argues the scares need much greater scrutiny www.ft.com/content/0ae2...
Ridiculous and genuinely INFURIATING - the main facts were reported in the FT exclusively in 2023! and then Jim has been consistently pursuing the story ever since!
Fact Check:
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal
it was on the front page for SIX days
(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
February 18, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Ridiculous and genuinely INFURIATING - the main facts were reported in the FT exclusively in 2023! and then Jim has been consistently pursuing the story ever since!
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Good evening, Jan @janjonesauthor.bsky.social & thank you, albeit somewhat belatedly on my part, I'm afraid. We went out quite early this morning & #SixNations has intervened on our return! With the time moving on, maybe "The Evening News" by Brynhild Parker from 1931 might now be appropriate!
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Good evening, Jan @janjonesauthor.bsky.social & thank you, albeit somewhat belatedly on my part, I'm afraid. We went out quite early this morning & #SixNations has intervened on our return! With the time moving on, maybe "The Evening News" by Brynhild Parker from 1931 might now be appropriate!
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Mandarin mayhem!
Latest episode of Political Fix has just dropped
Feat @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & @chris-smyth.bsky.social
This week we discuss the Whitehall briefing wars, gender politics in No 10, & if govt will lurch leftward
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Latest episode of Political Fix has just dropped
Feat @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & @chris-smyth.bsky.social
This week we discuss the Whitehall briefing wars, gender politics in No 10, & if govt will lurch leftward
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Mandarin mayhem
Podcast Episode · Political Fix · 13/02/2026 · 31m
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February 13, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Mandarin mayhem!
Latest episode of Political Fix has just dropped
Feat @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & @chris-smyth.bsky.social
This week we discuss the Whitehall briefing wars, gender politics in No 10, & if govt will lurch leftward
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Latest episode of Political Fix has just dropped
Feat @stephenkb.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & @chris-smyth.bsky.social
This week we discuss the Whitehall briefing wars, gender politics in No 10, & if govt will lurch leftward
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Significant that the High Court ruling is still, in places, quite damning of Palestine Action. It emphatically rejects that the group is engaged in "civil disobediance", for example.
It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.
It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Significant that the High Court ruling is still, in places, quite damning of Palestine Action. It emphatically rejects that the group is engaged in "civil disobediance", for example.
It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.
It just finds (compellingly) that proscription was still wrong, despite that.
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Nigel Farage has been making the incorrect claim that "one million people living in this country don't speak any English at all"
Facts here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Facts here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
February 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Nigel Farage has been making the incorrect claim that "one million people living in this country don't speak any English at all"
Facts here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Facts here 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
In which Meg Hillier pulls no punches in her disapproval of the Treasury and the chancellor over deregulation of financial services and the balance of risks - www.ft.com/content/8172...
The City should not have a monopoly on the chancellor’s ear
Consumer protection is being downplayed in favour of relaxing the rules for financial services
www.ft.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
In which Meg Hillier pulls no punches in her disapproval of the Treasury and the chancellor over deregulation of financial services and the balance of risks - www.ft.com/content/8172...
Look, I fully understand that there is a lot going on that I should be engaging with this evening, but also the new series of The Lincoln Lawyer is some of the most enjoyable bubblegum TV in a really long while and the cast are acting their little socks off - recommend.
February 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Look, I fully understand that there is a lot going on that I should be engaging with this evening, but also the new series of The Lincoln Lawyer is some of the most enjoyable bubblegum TV in a really long while and the cast are acting their little socks off - recommend.
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Today would have been Brynhild Parker's birthday as she was born on 10th February 1907. Attached herewith are her paintings of "Saloon Bar(1931)": "Appledore(1932)": "Islington Street Scene(1935)" & "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend(1930)"ex the collection at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend #botd
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Today would have been Brynhild Parker's birthday as she was born on 10th February 1907. Attached herewith are her paintings of "Saloon Bar(1931)": "Appledore(1932)": "Islington Street Scene(1935)" & "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend(1930)"ex the collection at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend #botd
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"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep."
#ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep."
#ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep."
#ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep."
#ShakespeareSunday #SuperbOwl
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A timely warning here...
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
A timely warning here...
... and a great Chris Deerin piece on what's at stake in Scotland come May's elections www.ft.com/content/1cd0...
Scotland faces its own revolt on the right
An unprecedented surge for Reform in May’s Holyrood vote will challenge the nation’s self-image
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
... and a great Chris Deerin piece on what's at stake in Scotland come May's elections www.ft.com/content/1cd0...
Nick MacPherson for the FT - on how the financial crash (he was perm sec at the time) suddenly meant investment bankers wandering around HMT. Interesting on the constant problems of how to get enough intel from banks but not give them undue influence www.ft.com/content/1e76...
Counting the cost of money in politics
Revelations of Mandelson’s cabinet leaks spotlight the symbiotic relationship between government and bankers
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Nick MacPherson for the FT - on how the financial crash (he was perm sec at the time) suddenly meant investment bankers wandering around HMT. Interesting on the constant problems of how to get enough intel from banks but not give them undue influence www.ft.com/content/1e76...
Have always thought that Clapham Junction's mad tangle of lines and platforms and the need to leg it across that overpass has been really under-used in TV and film thrillers - the whole place a weird mix of domesticated old fashioned Britain and constant possibility of disaster
'I saw these two lights of the fast train coming towards us and I said stop the train''
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk recalls how he saved a woman from an accident on the trains.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk recalls how he saved a woman from an accident on the trains.
February 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Have always thought that Clapham Junction's mad tangle of lines and platforms and the need to leg it across that overpass has been really under-used in TV and film thrillers - the whole place a weird mix of domesticated old fashioned Britain and constant possibility of disaster
OK I finally steeled myself to read the @helenrumbelow.bsky.social piece - jesus christ - www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt
They show a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny. I spent two days reading them
www.thetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
OK I finally steeled myself to read the @helenrumbelow.bsky.social piece - jesus christ - www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
Fed up to the back teeth that after all the years of displacement activity fighting over Brexit, we're still distracted by all this high politics and inexcusable bad behaviour from focussing on what matters - very pious I know but at least blessedly short - not even an unreadable column.
Very likely the PM's speech today will be remembered more for his apology on Mandelson but good nonetheless to hear Pride in Place is being extended to 40 more places.
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Fed up to the back teeth that after all the years of displacement activity fighting over Brexit, we're still distracted by all this high politics and inexcusable bad behaviour from focussing on what matters - very pious I know but at least blessedly short - not even an unreadable column.
This is a good book
Look what's arrived! It seems crass to be talking about it after everything that's happened this week, but I think my new book on the Blair years is fair, balanced and judicious. Available at all good bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/New-Labour-B...
February 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
This is a good book
Well, I for one hugely enjoyed @stephenddungu.bsky.social giving voice to a personified abyss this morning - very theatrical, very jolly at the end of an unjolly week www.ft.com/content/0748...
Why Al Carns is gaining ground as MPs mull Starmer’s replacement
Current challengers to the PM fail to convince Labour rank-and-file, lifting profile of lesser-known alternative
www.ft.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Well, I for one hugely enjoyed @stephenddungu.bsky.social giving voice to a personified abyss this morning - very theatrical, very jolly at the end of an unjolly week www.ft.com/content/0748...
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they don’t put sid james in films any more, because the left has abandoned cor! british values
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
they don’t put sid james in films any more, because the left has abandoned cor! british values
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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EXCLUSIVE:
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought help from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up advisory firm
Emails from 2010 show former UK minister asking child sex offender how to win political and corporate clients
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
EXCLUSIVE:
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government.
www.ft.com/content/13d2...
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Breaking news: The Bank of England held borrowing costs at 3.75% on Thursday as it awaits stronger evidence that UK inflation is on track to fall to the central bank’s target ft.trib.al/Jva20TJ
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Breaking news: The Bank of England held borrowing costs at 3.75% on Thursday as it awaits stronger evidence that UK inflation is on track to fall to the central bank’s target ft.trib.al/Jva20TJ
Key point here in @robertshrimsley.bsky.social - Starmer's entire personal pitch is being a stickler for the process, as we are hearing again this morning ad nauseam - but he turned a blind eye and it was a calculated risk www.ft.com/content/1a29...
Mandelson and the money that never sleeps
This is truly grim for Keir Starmer, raising questions about his ethics as well as his judgment
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Key point here in @robertshrimsley.bsky.social - Starmer's entire personal pitch is being a stickler for the process, as we are hearing again this morning ad nauseam - but he turned a blind eye and it was a calculated risk www.ft.com/content/1a29...
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