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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all conviction - ALL, DAMMIT, ALL
Now this, my friends, is an intro ...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
The messy art of escapism
Britain’s relationship with alcohol is complicated. It was too simple to heap blame on the young and calculatedly reckless
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January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
all conviction - ALL, DAMMIT, ALL
Now this, my friends, is an intro ...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
The messy art of escapism
Britain’s relationship with alcohol is complicated. It was too simple to heap blame on the young and calculatedly reckless
www.ft.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Now this, my friends, is an intro ...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
It’s Saturday night near Glasgow Central Station, where the best lack a conviction, while the worst are full of passion-fruit martini.
Bryce Elder on the booze www.ft.com/content/5932...
Brilliant piece on cognitive biases and blind spots from Gilliant Tett - drawing on, of all things, a manual from the Swiss intelligence service - www.ft.com/content/d8b2...
Why we should know what we don’t know
Cognitive blind spots are undermining our ability to see the world as it is, rather than as we would like it to be
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January 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Brilliant piece on cognitive biases and blind spots from Gilliant Tett - drawing on, of all things, a manual from the Swiss intelligence service - www.ft.com/content/d8b2...
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This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 AM
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
Today I learnt that French for gallbladder is vesicule biliaire and now I can't stop saying it. So pleasing. Vesicule biliare. I learnt this from my darling mum who also told me she would like to "rent" a new TV - had to explain that the whole Radio Rentals thing doesn't really happen anymore
January 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Today I learnt that French for gallbladder is vesicule biliaire and now I can't stop saying it. So pleasing. Vesicule biliare. I learnt this from my darling mum who also told me she would like to "rent" a new TV - had to explain that the whole Radio Rentals thing doesn't really happen anymore
This is fascinating from Leo Lewis and has resonance far beyond Japan re inflation, retail, business and politics etc www.ft.com/content/a21e... @urbandirt.bsky.social
Japan’s ‘Goldilocks crisis’ is a make-or-break moment
The curious surge in the shares of retailer Aeon underlines the pressure building in the country’s economy — and politics
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January 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This is fascinating from Leo Lewis and has resonance far beyond Japan re inflation, retail, business and politics etc www.ft.com/content/a21e... @urbandirt.bsky.social
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In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree
Push pineapples, shake the tree
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree
Push pineapples, shake the tree
COME ON
we’ve done the darkest three weeks of the year now
Happy to let you know that in the northern hemisphere we’ve now done the darkest two weeks in the year. All the other 50 weeks will be lighter than this.
January 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
COME ON
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So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
January 1, 2026 at 10:50 AM
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
Happy New Year to all of you - even the people who haven't had the stomach bug or the 2 week fluey cold - the only way is up people🎆
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Happy New Year to all of you - even the people who haven't had the stomach bug or the 2 week fluey cold - the only way is up people🎆
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Trends are impossible to spot these days, just go with vibes. Me for the Times
www.thetimes.com/article/10e4...
www.thetimes.com/article/10e4...
Spotting trends is now impossible — just go with the vibes
I find myself feeling nostalgic for the clarity of old times. These days you can watch trends being born, hyped and dying in real time
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December 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Trends are impossible to spot these days, just go with vibes. Me for the Times
www.thetimes.com/article/10e4...
www.thetimes.com/article/10e4...
Another delightful ICYMI - the dinosaurs of Crystal Palace get a new lease of life - great piece here from FT mag on the history of this crazy Victorian project (many hours of my SE London childhood spent staring at a muddy member of the troupe) www.ft.com/content/2451...
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are getting a glow up
Age, neglect and vandalism had spoiled the original Jurassic park, imagined into existence by a gang of visionary Victorians
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December 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Another delightful ICYMI - the dinosaurs of Crystal Palace get a new lease of life - great piece here from FT mag on the history of this crazy Victorian project (many hours of my SE London childhood spent staring at a muddy member of the troupe) www.ft.com/content/2451...
Extremely fun piece by Ben Parr on the Christmas mummers' play tradition - it is Boxing Day after all - love the bit about the quack doctor acquiring the name Dr Squires who knows why www.ft.com/content/25f1...
The absurdity of a mummers’ Christmas
The annual folk tradition has been staged in the UK and Ireland for over two centuries
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December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Extremely fun piece by Ben Parr on the Christmas mummers' play tradition - it is Boxing Day after all - love the bit about the quack doctor acquiring the name Dr Squires who knows why www.ft.com/content/25f1...
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Political books round up by me for @ftweekend.com - for the truly insanely last minute present-buyers among you - 2 on Blair, 1 on Starmer, 1 on Nato and one on a truly grim character in the long history of cash for honours - Merry Christmas folks - www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
The seamy side of Westminster, then and now — the best new books on politics
From revelations about Starmer’s Labour to the story of a Liberal who sold honours. Plus the reminiscences of a Nato chief and the evangelism of Tony Blair
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December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Political books round up by me for @ftweekend.com - for the truly insanely last minute present-buyers among you - 2 on Blair, 1 on Starmer, 1 on Nato and one on a truly grim character in the long history of cash for honours - Merry Christmas folks - www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
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if you're running out of family dinner conversation may I suggest hitting them with some fun cardboard facts from our big cardboard story? 📦🎁📦
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Where does all the Christmas cardboard go?
[FREE TO READ] Typical UK household receives delivery boxes the height of a skyscraper each year
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December 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
if you're running out of family dinner conversation may I suggest hitting them with some fun cardboard facts from our big cardboard story? 📦🎁📦
as.ft.com/r/e9673efd-f...
as.ft.com/r/e9673efd-f...
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Enoch Powell sharply criticised Queen Eluzabeth II's Christmas broadcast of 1983 - featuring a trip to the Commonwealth summit in India - which may "suggest she has the affairs & interests in other continents as much, or more, at heart than those of her own people" & too concerned for newcomers here
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Enoch Powell sharply criticised Queen Eluzabeth II's Christmas broadcast of 1983 - featuring a trip to the Commonwealth summit in India - which may "suggest she has the affairs & interests in other continents as much, or more, at heart than those of her own people" & too concerned for newcomers here
Aaaaand ... the first PR email about "Twixmas" has landed ... kill me now
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Aaaaand ... the first PR email about "Twixmas" has landed ... kill me now
Morning all - most read on the FT website today - words of the year series hits an undoubted high/low note with 6-7 the bane of the adult world in 2025 www.ft.com/content/3b2e...
Year in a word: 6-7
Generation Alpha’s ubiquitous watchword is beyond the reach of semantics
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December 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Morning all - most read on the FT website today - words of the year series hits an undoubted high/low note with 6-7 the bane of the adult world in 2025 www.ft.com/content/3b2e...
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Political books round up by me for @ftweekend.com - for the truly insanely last minute present-buyers among you - 2 on Blair, 1 on Starmer, 1 on Nato and one on a truly grim character in the long history of cash for honours - Merry Christmas folks - www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
The seamy side of Westminster, then and now — the best new books on politics
From revelations about Starmer’s Labour to the story of a Liberal who sold honours. Plus the reminiscences of a Nato chief and the evangelism of Tony Blair
www.ft.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Political books round up by me for @ftweekend.com - for the truly insanely last minute present-buyers among you - 2 on Blair, 1 on Starmer, 1 on Nato and one on a truly grim character in the long history of cash for honours - Merry Christmas folks - www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
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'New Labour, New Britain?' by, er, me has made it into the best new politics books list at the FT! Many thanks to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for the kind words. (1/2)
www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
The seamy side of Westminster, then and now — the best new books on politics
From revelations about Starmer’s Labour to the story of a Liberal who sold honours. Plus the reminiscences of a Nato chief and the evangelism of Tony Blair
www.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
'New Labour, New Britain?' by, er, me has made it into the best new politics books list at the FT! Many thanks to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for the kind words. (1/2)
www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
www.ft.com/content/dd0f...
The time I greeted the Archbishop of Canterbury as a chum and other instances of mistaken recognition - its parasocial innit - word of t'year - www.ft.com/content/2b66...
Haven’t we met before?
Aristotle can help explain our intense, ‘parasocial’ feelings for people we know nearly nothing about
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December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The time I greeted the Archbishop of Canterbury as a chum and other instances of mistaken recognition - its parasocial innit - word of t'year - www.ft.com/content/2b66...
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So many utterly insane people on the radical left and utterly insane people on the radical right in Britain seem to just copy and paste their ludicrous opinions wholesale from America. The obsession with guns is always a dead giveaway.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So many utterly insane people on the radical left and utterly insane people on the radical right in Britain seem to just copy and paste their ludicrous opinions wholesale from America. The obsession with guns is always a dead giveaway.
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Very likely to be the truest measure of voting intention today given their Methodology and the expense of doing so / record at the general election. Reform surge real, labour collapse at worse end of expectations, big gains for liberals and greens. Tories at higher end of polling
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 27% (+12)
CON: 21% (-3)
LAB: 18% (-17)
LDM: 15% (+3)
GRN: 13% (+6)
Via @veriangroup.com, 12-15 Dec.
Changes w/ GE2024.
RFM: 27% (+12)
CON: 21% (-3)
LAB: 18% (-17)
LDM: 15% (+3)
GRN: 13% (+6)
Via @veriangroup.com, 12-15 Dec.
Changes w/ GE2024.
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very likely to be the truest measure of voting intention today given their Methodology and the expense of doing so / record at the general election. Reform surge real, labour collapse at worse end of expectations, big gains for liberals and greens. Tories at higher end of polling
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If anyone would like me to speak about the Blair govts at their local bookgroup, bookshop or Labour Party (etc.), just DM or give me an email and we'll talk! Happy to help, just doing my job etc.
Lots of you will be logging off at the end of today. So what's coming up in 2026? It'll be packed. I'll be talking in York on Tues 3 March about my new book on the Blair governments. Come along! I'll also be speaking in - at least - Bristol, London and Oxford. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-labour...
New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair governments reshaped the country
The New Labour governments of the 1990s and 2000s seem a long time ago, but now it might be time for a reassessment.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If anyone would like me to speak about the Blair govts at their local bookgroup, bookshop or Labour Party (etc.), just DM or give me an email and we'll talk! Happy to help, just doing my job etc.